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Ronda Borberg-Shulenburg
Creative as well as practical, Ronda is a porcelain potter from Virginia Beach, Virginia. Trading in the corporate computer world for a riverfront studio, she studied pottery as a second career and is also an owner of Blue Skies Gallery.
Beginning with sketchbook designs, her ideas develop and evolve before the clay is brought to the wedging table. She throws using a kick wheel shaping many of the same forms, each becoming unique. Designs are lightly sketched on the clay and carved. Shells and found objects are often used for impressions. All of her lead-free glazes are produced from scratch and are slowly reduction fired in a gas kiln to 2400F.
Not only are these pieces object d'art, their culinary advantages are inspiring.
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Turning opaque, malleable and silky smooth porcelain clay into a translucent, impenetrable functional form is a consuming passion. Knowing that the bowl she creates today could outlast her is a humbling concept.
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