Silicon Valley Open Studios

About Celma Kirkwood

I developed my signature style – complex, organic forms in harmony with vivid surface decoration – during my first career in Brazil as an architect and architecture professor. Now a full time artist, my work in clay is based on the search of the endless possibilities clay has to offer. Each hand built piece is unique, and both shape and surface decoration happen through a process that involves less planning than feeling with my hands the possibilities in the clay, as the piece evolves.