Berit Hines

Born in Bremen, Germany, educated in Fine Art in The Netherlands, and now living in the US, Berit brings a perspective all her own to vessel making. Her forms are alive with movement, with hand-built stoneware forms bending and twirling as though dancing. Some of her pieces, such as her Café Flatte cups and her silhouette vases, are flattened to achieve an optical illusion. They look like more traditional, voluminous vessels from one view and display surprising narrowness from another. Berit decorates these delightful forms with sgraffito and mishima techniques. They create a stunning texture and color play, calling to mind patterns from nature as well as pottery-decorating traditions and woodcut prints. A playful post-modern current runs through this work, nudging us to think about the functional vessel in new ways.

Whether displayed against a wall or out on a table to be viewed in the round, delightful surprises lie in store for those experiencing this wonderful work packed with personality. 

Berit Hines earned her BFA in Ceramics at the Royal Academy for Art and Design, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. She worked as a studio artist and ceramics teacher, showing in The Netherlands and Germany, before moving to the US. She now divides her time between the Morean Center for Clay in St. Petersburg, FL and her home studio in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. She exhibits her work nationally.