I don’t know how I found her, but wow is Lilach Lotan’s work amazing. She was trained at the Bezalel Academy is Israel in ceramic design and the pieces she creates in her new home of Canada are phenomenal. For people who read this blog often, you know I’m into porcelain and ocean-inspired art and lighting. Lilach’s work touches all three.
Many of her lighting elements are ocean inspired, with the coral reef being the title of the work and so I assume so level of inspiration for form and design elements.
Her sconces are extraordinary. I would die to have these in a small little room, maybe a tucked away bathroom or personal office nook someday.
Lilach has a great set up, she works with 100% studio time because her husband, Ron, manages the business day-to-day for her ceramics studio. So awesome and supportive! She wheel throws her pieces so I’m guessing that each of the barnacle elements in separate and them either attached to a frame and connected somehow – I’m not sure.
Look at that details! I wonder how little her fingers must be to make those so perfectly! The best part about what I read on the lights is that they remain unglazed or “naked” porcelain. I love the tactile quality of porcelain, almost like a delicate chalkboard so I love that she maintains that in her work.
The above is a smaller lamp that she sells which appears to just be a small table lamp. That might be a more reasonable one to start with as I can’t imagine these run very cheap!
The above is her straight up barnacle lamp, which I think is my all time favorite.
Close-up on said barnacles is amazing – I can’t get over how delicate the pieces are.
They look great not in the dark too as shown by the above piece. I can imagine this in a dressing room too where you want great mood lighting!
Tags: lighting, porcelain, repetitive