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CLARA BETHELL-SACKS

KINTSUGI ARTIST

Kintsugi art repair. Small blue glazed bowl mended using traditional Japanese lacquer techniques so that the lines of the cracks are highlighted with gold hued brass.

Clara Kintsugi

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Night Sky Bowl

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Kintsugi Art. A beautiful blue glazed bowl with kintsugi mend lines, delicately traced in shining gold hued brass, nestles in white muslin.

Kintsugi Art. A beautiful blue glazed bowl with kintsugi mend lines, delicately traced in shining gold hued brass, is held up to the light.

Kintsugi Art. A beautiful blue glazed bowl with kintsugi mend lines, delicately traced in shining gold hued brass, rests upside down on textured traditional Japanese paper.

Kintsugi Art. A beautiful blue glazed bowl with kintsugi mend lines, delicately traced in shining gold hued brass, held up to the light.

Kintsugi Art. A beautiful blue glazed bowl with kintsugi mend lines, delicately traced in shining gold hued brass, sits on traditional Japanese paper.

Kintsugi Art. A beautiful blue glazed bowl with kintsugi mend lines, delicately traced in shining gold hued brass, is held in three generations' hands.

The re-making of Night Sky Bowl - tap images to discover more

Small blue and brown glazed bowl broken into seven pieces, cupped in kintsugi artist's hands.

White muslin flags with black Japanese calligraphy

Side view of blue and brown glazed bowl, nested in white muslin, kintsugi repair in progress, with white crack lines and fill areas contrasting against the glaze.

Outside view of blue and brown glazed bowl, kintsugi repair in progress, with white crack lines and fill areas contrasting against the glaze.

Black Japanese calligraphy being painted with a traditional brush on white textured paper

Blue and brown glazed bowl with the black lines of a kintsugi repair in progress crisscrossing its surface. It sits on a white tile palette with black urushi laquer and traditional Japanese brush.

Black urushi lacquer lines, tracing the break lines on the underside of a blue and brown glazed bowl with the black lines of a kintsugi repair. The artist holds the piece in one hand and the brush in the other.

White Japanese cherry blossom signifying new life and transience

Small blue and brown glazed kintsugi bowl with black urushi lacuered break lines.

Small blue and brown glazed kintsugi bowl with black urushi lacuered break lines and small patches of white showing through where the kintsugi has been sanded before the next layer is applied.

A white sheet of paper with 4 vertical lines of hand painted traditional Japanese calligraphy script in black ink

Traditional Japanese kintsugi brush lying on white tile palette with small amount of dark red urushi lacquer ready for applying to a repair.

A kintsugi artist is dipping her traditional Japanese brush into red bengara urushi on a white tile palette in preparation for applying it to the break lines in the small blue glazed bowl held in her left hand

Raked light grey gravel lines encircle a large rock set into the ground of a zen rock garden

Over shoulder view of a kintsugi artist sat a t a wooden bench, working on a small bowl with a traditional Japanese brush

A small amount of red urushi squeezed from a tube with fine squiggly dribbles, on a white palette.

Kintsugi artist works, bare-handed, applying red urushi lacquer. She uses a traditional Japanese kintsugi brush to work on a small blue and brown bowl, seen from above.

Kintsugi artist sitting at workbench with urushi lacquer palette, working on a small blue bowl with a long wooden handled brush.

Kintsugi artist applying red urushi lacquer over black crack lines and filled areas on a mended blue glazed bowl.

Kintsugi brush, red brown urushi lacquer and vegetable oil on a white tile.

Brass powder, mawata silk cotton and traditional Japanese soft bristled brush on white palette, ready for applying metal powder to kintsugi repair lines.

kintsugi application of gold hued brass in progress. Shining lines of metal highlighted cracks are visible through excess metal dust that remains prior to polishing.

View through pink spring blossom of white Japanese calligraphy on black hangings against the walls of a traditional Japanese building.

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