Mermaids are mystical

WORDS Debbie Loots 

Shipwrecks, sea monsters and mermaids… Seems like yarns for spinning children’s fantasy tales, but put beauty and fear in the mix and you have a taste of the many ideas shaping artist Lucinda Mudge’s new body of handmade coil vases, showing until 20 May at The Gallery at Grande Provence, Franschhoek.

Lucinda’s ceramics have always stood out from the pack with their wry slogans and illustrative embellishments.

South Africa hasn’t always been home to her, or her only place of inspiration. After art studies at Michaelis in Cape Town, she moved to London where she taught herself ceramics. Back home a few years later – husband and the first of two babes in arms – she set up a home studio in sleepy Keurboomstrand.

But not much sleep is on the cards: after the Franschhoek exhibit, Lucinda starts working on a show for Circa in Jozi.

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Lucinda was one of the 15 hip young design talents to watch that we featured in our April/May 2014 REWIND REDO RENEW edition, now on shelves.