Marci Blattenberger | Ceramic Artist | Centigrade Kiln Fired Art


www.ppioforum.com is a brand new site with free lessons/studies/photos for Kiln Fired Artists! Check it out now! A passion for colour has been a part of me for as long as I can remember....delighting in a brand new box of crayons, thrilling to the sight of a maple tree set ablaze by the golden light of the late autumn sun. There is still nothing as exciting to me as the magical play of light on just about anything. My other passion is capturing a fleeting expression: a look, a movement or an emotion frozen in time. My chosen mediums are varied (watercolour, acrylic, pastel, clay) but my favourite is working with fired over glaze paints on porcelain. The addition of the intense heat of the kiln into the normal artistic equation of pigment and inspiration can mean disaster..... or delight. It's this uncertainty that fascinates and beckons me. My love of art started early. I can remember sitting in church as a child in Buffalo, NY, being captivated by the music but mostly by the colours... the statues, the flowers, the light through stained glass windows. After college, I made my living on the road playing music, and it was a chance encounter with a little piece of hand painted porcelain at a flea market that started me on my current artistic path. It was love at first sight! I began to collect hand painted porcelain, both antique & contemporary pieces by some local Buffalo porcelain artists. As my collection began to reach critical mass, my husband Rex, uttered the words he has since come to regret:" Why don't you learn how to do this yourself? It'd be a lot cheaper.” Talk about famous last words! After several months of lessons on the basics of over glaze painting, I worked mostly on my own, but since moving to Nashville in 1988, I've had the opportunity to study with some of the best in the china painting world such as Jane Marcks, San Do and the flame-haired Goddess of porcelain, Nancy Benedetti. I have been teaching china painting seminars all across the US since the late 70’s...I also have done seminars in England, Germany and Australia. In 1996, I founded a website, along with Betty Gerstner, for the purpose of teaching and promoting over glaze via the internet. For more info on PPIO (Porcelain Painters International Online), go to http://www.ppio.com PPIO (Porcelain Painters International Online) now offers a free mailing list and lots of technical information on the website.

www.ppioforum.com is a brand new site with free lessons/studies/photos for Kiln Fired Artists! Check it out now!

A passion for colour has been a part of me for as long as I can remember....delighting in a brand new box of crayons, thrilling to the sight of a maple tree set ablaze by the golden light of the late autumn sun. There is still nothing as exciting to me as the magical play of light on just about anything.

My other passion is capturing a fleeting expression: a look, a movement or an emotion frozen in time.
My chosen mediums are varied (watercolour, acrylic, pastel, clay) but my favourite is working with fired over glaze paints on porcelain. The addition of the intense heat of the kiln into the normal artistic equation of pigment and inspiration can mean disaster..... or delight. It's this uncertainty that fascinates and beckons me.

My love of art started early. I can remember sitting in church as a child in Buffalo, NY, being captivated by the music but mostly by the colours... the statues, the flowers, the light through stained glass windows.
After college, I made my living on the road playing music, and it was a chance encounter with a little piece of hand painted porcelain at a flea market that started me on my current artistic path. It was love at first sight!

I began to collect hand painted porcelain, both antique & contemporary pieces by some local Buffalo porcelain artists. As my collection began to reach critical mass, my husband Rex, uttered the words he has since come to regret:" Why don't you learn how to do this yourself? It'd be a lot cheaper.” Talk about famous last words!

After several months of lessons on the basics of over glaze painting, I worked mostly on my own, but since moving to Nashville in 1988, I've had the opportunity to study with some of the best in the china painting world such as Jane Marcks, San Do and the flame-haired Goddess of porcelain, Nancy Benedetti.

I have been teaching china painting seminars all across the US since the late 70’s...I also have done seminars in England, Germany and Australia.

In 1996, I founded a website, along with Betty Gerstner, for the purpose of teaching and promoting over glaze via the internet. For more info on PPIO (Porcelain Painters International Online), go to http://www.ppio.com PPIO (Porcelain Painters International Online) now offers a free mailing list and lots of technical information on the website.