Andrea Trzaskos | Frog Song Designs
My clay work ranges from functional tableware to decorative sculpture and wall art. I hand build every piece, then sculpt or carve surface designs – always working freehand so that each piece is one-of-a-kind.
From the smallest of tiles to the largest of vases, each of my pieces is hand-built. Depending on the shape I’m after (or the mood I’m in) I may work with slabs, coils, pinching or any combination of techniques to form or build up a shape.
Plates and platters I may form against a mold so that there is some consistency in size and shape between pieces that might stay together as a set. Many larger vessels are completely free-form, yielding shapes never to be exactly repeated. When it comes to sculptural forms, anything could happen…
A gardener first, I came to ceramics with a love for working with my hands in dirt and a passion for the outdoors that my life in Vermont continues to inspire. What has developed is a continuing discovery of the influences that shape and inspire me - nature and natural beauty, wind, water, movement, flight, stillness. All of my work is hand built. I sculpt or carve each piece to create surface designs and texture, always working free-hand so that every piece is one-of-a-kind.
