Petra Skarsen

Petra Skarsen

Rising

Studio macro photography of hand-built ceramic surfaces — wheel-thrown ridges, kiln-fired glaze pools, hand-pressed thumb marks

Bergen ceramicist turned photographer. After 20 years at the wheel she traded clay for camera but kept the same subject: the surface that shows the human hand.

Wood-fire ash crusting beside a wheel-thrown ridge, deposit fading from olive to

Tenmoku breaking iron-red across the crest of a wheel-thrown ridge, glaze poolin

Razor-tight crop of glaze crawling apart between two thumb indents, pale islands

Tenmoku pooling deep black in a hand-formed groove, glaze breaking iron-red at t

Sgraffito hatching carved through black slip, exposed red clay glowing through f

Copper-red glaze pooling cherry-dark in a hand-pressed indent, halo of pale pink

Slip-trailed dots clustering across stoneware, raised cream pearls casting tight

Hand-built coil joins beneath a wash of pale shino, gentle ridges marching like

Slip-trailed cream squiggles raised across stoneware, soft loops casting tight c

Sgraffito carved spirals through black slip on red earthenware, every loop revea

Salt-glazed stoneware curve, pebbled skin punctuated by a deep hand-pressed dent

Sgraffito carved zig-zag through black slip on red clay, exposed earth glowing r

Salt-fired stoneware shoulder, orange-peel skin marching past a deep thumbprint

Razor-tight focus on copper-red bead sliding down a porcelain wall, glossy ruby

Wheel-thrown ridges fading to bare stoneware near the foot, throwing marks softe

Razor-sharp ash-glaze drip running down a hand-pressed groove, jade pooling at t

Salt-fired stoneware orange-peel surface, pebbled glaze rolling over a deep thum

Hand-built coil mark visible beneath a wash of pale shino glaze, joins softened

Hand-pressed knuckle prints lining a stoneware shoulder, glaze pooling amber ins

Hand-pressed thumb dents alternating up the wall of an earthenware piece, glaze

Ash-fleck speckle scattered across satin-warm stoneware glaze, faint iron blooms

Mid-detail view of curved stoneware shoulder with crawl-glaze beading and a deep

Sgraffito carved spirals through black slip on red earthenware, exposed clay glo

Glossy celadon pool gathering in a hand-pressed cup on porcelain, jade meniscus

Razor-sharp wheel-thrown ridges in dark stoneware, deep shadows pooling between

Slip-trailed cream wave raised across earthenware, ribbon casting a long curving

Razor-sharp focus on slip-trailed cream loops over toasted stoneware, raised lin

Mid-detail view of crackle network spreading from a thumb dent across pale shino

Drip glaze pooling at the foot ring, deep amber bead suspended above bare toaste

Crackled tenmoku branching from a thumb dent, fine craze veining the dark glaze

Salt-fired orange-peel finish on a stoneware curve, pebbled grey-green skin catc

Hand-pressed wave of dents flowing across stoneware, amber glaze caught in every

Drips of tenmoku running over wheel ridges, dark glaze sliding into the troughs

Wood-fire ash crusting beside a wheel-thrown ridge, deposit fading from olive to

Razor-tight crop of glaze crawling apart between two thumb indents, pale islands

Sgraffito hatching carved through black slip, exposed red clay glowing through f

Slip-trailed dots clustering across stoneware, raised cream pearls casting tight

Slip-trailed cream squiggles raised across stoneware, soft loops casting tight c

Sgraffito carved spirals through black slip on red earthenware, every loop revea

Sgraffito carved zig-zag through black slip on red clay, exposed earth glowing r

Razor-tight focus on copper-red bead sliding down a porcelain wall, glossy ruby

Razor-sharp ash-glaze drip running down a hand-pressed groove, jade pooling at t

Hand-built coil mark visible beneath a wash of pale shino glaze, joins softened

Hand-pressed thumb dents alternating up the wall of an earthenware piece, glaze

Mid-detail view of curved stoneware shoulder with crawl-glaze beading and a deep

Glossy celadon pool gathering in a hand-pressed cup on porcelain, jade meniscus

Slip-trailed cream wave raised across earthenware, ribbon casting a long curving

Mid-detail view of crackle network spreading from a thumb dent across pale shino

Drip glaze pooling at the foot ring, deep amber bead suspended above bare toaste

Salt-fired orange-peel finish on a stoneware curve, pebbled grey-green skin catc

Drips of tenmoku running over wheel ridges, dark glaze sliding into the troughs

Tenmoku breaking iron-red across the crest of a wheel-thrown ridge, glaze poolin

Tenmoku pooling deep black in a hand-formed groove, glaze breaking iron-red at t

Copper-red glaze pooling cherry-dark in a hand-pressed indent, halo of pale pink

Hand-built coil joins beneath a wash of pale shino, gentle ridges marching like

Salt-glazed stoneware curve, pebbled skin punctuated by a deep hand-pressed dent

Salt-fired stoneware shoulder, orange-peel skin marching past a deep thumbprint

Wheel-thrown ridges fading to bare stoneware near the foot, throwing marks softe

Salt-fired stoneware orange-peel surface, pebbled glaze rolling over a deep thum

Hand-pressed knuckle prints lining a stoneware shoulder, glaze pooling amber ins

Ash-fleck speckle scattered across satin-warm stoneware glaze, faint iron blooms

Sgraffito carved spirals through black slip on red earthenware, exposed clay glo

Razor-sharp wheel-thrown ridges in dark stoneware, deep shadows pooling between

Razor-sharp focus on slip-trailed cream loops over toasted stoneware, raised lin

Crackled tenmoku branching from a thumb dent, fine craze veining the dark glaze

Hand-pressed wave of dents flowing across stoneware, amber glaze caught in every

Wood-fire ash crusting beside a wheel-thrown ridge, deposit fading from olive to

Tenmoku breaking iron-red across the crest of a wheel-thrown ridge, glaze poolin

Razor-tight crop of glaze crawling apart between two thumb indents, pale islands

Tenmoku pooling deep black in a hand-formed groove, glaze breaking iron-red at t

Sgraffito hatching carved through black slip, exposed red clay glowing through f

Copper-red glaze pooling cherry-dark in a hand-pressed indent, halo of pale pink

Slip-trailed dots clustering across stoneware, raised cream pearls casting tight

Hand-built coil joins beneath a wash of pale shino, gentle ridges marching like

Slip-trailed cream squiggles raised across stoneware, soft loops casting tight c

Sgraffito carved spirals through black slip on red earthenware, every loop revea

Salt-glazed stoneware curve, pebbled skin punctuated by a deep hand-pressed dent

Sgraffito carved zig-zag through black slip on red clay, exposed earth glowing r

Salt-fired stoneware shoulder, orange-peel skin marching past a deep thumbprint

Razor-tight focus on copper-red bead sliding down a porcelain wall, glossy ruby

Wheel-thrown ridges fading to bare stoneware near the foot, throwing marks softe

Razor-sharp ash-glaze drip running down a hand-pressed groove, jade pooling at t

Salt-fired stoneware orange-peel surface, pebbled glaze rolling over a deep thum

Hand-built coil mark visible beneath a wash of pale shino glaze, joins softened

Hand-pressed knuckle prints lining a stoneware shoulder, glaze pooling amber ins

Hand-pressed thumb dents alternating up the wall of an earthenware piece, glaze

Ash-fleck speckle scattered across satin-warm stoneware glaze, faint iron blooms

Mid-detail view of curved stoneware shoulder with crawl-glaze beading and a deep

Sgraffito carved spirals through black slip on red earthenware, exposed clay glo

Glossy celadon pool gathering in a hand-pressed cup on porcelain, jade meniscus

Razor-sharp wheel-thrown ridges in dark stoneware, deep shadows pooling between

Slip-trailed cream wave raised across earthenware, ribbon casting a long curving

Razor-sharp focus on slip-trailed cream loops over toasted stoneware, raised lin

Mid-detail view of crackle network spreading from a thumb dent across pale shino

Drip glaze pooling at the foot ring, deep amber bead suspended above bare toaste

Crackled tenmoku branching from a thumb dent, fine craze veining the dark glaze

Salt-fired orange-peel finish on a stoneware curve, pebbled grey-green skin catc

Hand-pressed wave of dents flowing across stoneware, amber glaze caught in every

Drips of tenmoku running over wheel ridges, dark glaze sliding into the troughs

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