Beau Kvenild
![Loop-D-Loop Flowerpot](/sites/default/files/styles/1800w/public/2022-02/LoopDLoopFlowerpot_2021_Cermic_21-mod-eblast.jpg?itok=R1rIHJM5)
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Beau Kvenild
These lively, abstracted flowers in vases have a childlike quality. The flowers are made from simple forms decorated with bold colors. The vases are decorated with playful images reminiscent of Miro. “The reflect sort of a child’s view of the world, how a child might think about life and death and the universe,” says Kvenild. Fired to Cone 03 and Cone 05 glaze, the flowers combine wheel-thrown, slab-built and extruded shapes. The artist states that his intention is “to create ceramic forms with rich, complex glazed surfaces like those found in Cubist paintings. I use clay both as a canvas and for sculpture.”