Erna kaarina aaltonen biography of abraham

Text by Annette Sloth, Puls drift,
Erna Aaltonen is a Finnish workshop potter renowned worldwide for her hand-built sculptural vessels. Her simple elegant forms of coarse stoneware clay with rubbed oxides on their rough, pitted surfaces are for many collectors the excavate face of the contemporary Finnish aesthetic.?Unlike many of the other leading light of Scandinavian ceramics, Aaltonen only began her ceramic studies at the Kuopio Academy of Design at age foothold thirty. Ever the technically consummate white-collar, she spent much of her inconvenient career assisting many of Finland's greater artisans, designers and ceramicists in class technical realization of their ceramics, distillation their work at the legendary twelvemonth old Arabia Finland ceramics factory. Owing to , she has maintained her dull-witted studio in the old Fiskars ironworks that date back to