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Published on Thursday, 14 March 2013
AYALA Museum proudly presents Terrain: The Works of Nelfa Querubin, an exhibit of impressive fine art ceramics, available for viewing from 5 March to 28 April, 2013 at the museum’s Third Floor Glass Lane.
Amorphous, atypical and captivating, the works of Querubin break away from the mold of mainstream ceramic pottery and show a successful marriage of artisanship and artistry. Its geologic and earthen style is achieved using formulas Querubin personally concocted and techniques in firing with self-constructed kilns (oven-type structures for heating clay and other materials for pottery).
Environment plays a major role in Querubin’s creative process, both as sites of material resources and as a source of artistic inspiration. “My ceramic works are like organic shapes that reflect nature around me,” she explains. Having moved residences numerous times, from her hometown in Ilo-Ilo to her current one in Colorado, USA, the natural beauty of landscapes surrounding her are clearly re-interpreted in her ceramic works.
Querubin further explains, “Colorado has a gorgeous landscape scenery: the changing season, the fantastic rock formation with exquisite texture and color of different kind. Those are the texture and form in my works. My love of rocks, water and nature, I found it here abundantly.”
“But the Philippines is different in its own beauty and I kept coming back,” she adds, “I now have two kinds of roots in my heart… that shows in my ceramic works, the testament to my life.”
Querubin began her artistic career working and freelancing as an illustrator, architectural draftsman, cartographer, graphic designer, and printmaker. She was introduced to ceramic pottery in the early 70s and has been active in the industry ever since.
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