Lise Herud Braten's primary interests lie in creating highly textured and natural, organic forms, with references to details in nature and the urban environment.
Memories of growing up in a rugged landscape in Norway inform both shapes and mark-making, imbuing the pieces with a sense of place.
Lise's work primarily consists of decorate and sculptural vessels and forms. Her work has been exhibited in galleries in the UK and USA, and is held in private collections in Europe, USA, Asia and the Middle East.
For her new works, Lise has taken inspiration for the Norwegian winter landscape, with rich colours of stone, treebark and vibrant lichens obscured by coatings of crackly whites. The finished pieces simultaneously exude an inner warmth and spirit, as well as a calm, quiet and restful presence.
Lise employs a variety of techniques, often manipulating, carving and altering thrown forms to create organic and spontaneous shapes and structures. Using a variety of stoneware and porcelain clays, each piece is layered with slips, engobes, oxides, glazes and natural ash, applied in a painterly and abstract way. The resultant effect of this treatment suffuses the pieces with a sense of history, of time spent exposed and weather by the natural elements. There is a sense of timelessness and quiet beauty deep within each piece.
