Simona Armas Artijanas
The artisan
Simona Armas and Iacopo Ladu put all their creativity into crafting joyful, elegant decorative artefacts using the fine raku pottery technique. Their range of subjects and images belongs to a fantastic colorful world where big-eyed animals, rendered with vivid colour combinations, express light-heartedness and imagination according to their distinctive personal taste. After studying at the School of Art in Oristano, Simona continued her training as an apprentice for master ceramists in different parts of the island. In 2008, she set up her artistic ceramics workshop in Iglesias, a town in the south-west of Sardinia, which she called Artijanas, where she started crafting her unique objects using the raku technique and playfully interpreting themes and colours inspired by the island, ...
The collection
The rich production of Artijanas features a joyful aesthetic taste animated by animal figures stylised in a very personal way, with vibrant combinations of bright colours and black, thus achieving an original aesthetic result using the fine raku technique. Artijanas crafts different lines of home décor, small and large ornamental sculptures, grouped by theme in the Bestiario (bestiary) line of land animals: the stylised figures of cats, sheep, pigs, hedgehogs, hens, tortoises and many more, alongside the seaworld line where fish of various shapes and sizes, octopuses, crabs and whales express a lively marine life.
The technique
All the Artijanas productions are crafted using the raku technique. Lathe-shaping and plate-shaping are done according to each project, with subsequent manual plastic additions.
More details on the Mediterranean Crafts Archive
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Where to find them
E-mail: info@artijanas
Telefono: +39 0781 71529
Sito web: www.artijanas.it