Earthenware Ceramics

These earthenware ceramics extend Sørensen’s exploration of colour, movement, and surface into a three-dimensional medium. Using coloured clay slips applied to the surface of vessels and tiles, the works develop painterly structures that unfold across curved and planar forms. As in his paintings and prints, motifs, lines, and colour fields interact and shift, creating compositions that move between improvisation and control.

Working with coloured clay slips also recalls the logic of printmaking. The palette is limited and the layers must be applied directly to the surface in a single process. The composition cannot be revised once the slip is applied, and the final colours only emerge after firing. The work therefore develops indirectly, through an improvised understanding of composition that requires a momentum of decisive tension.

The ceramic works began in 2020 when Sørensen was invited to decorate a series of vases at Galleriet Hornbæk. It was his first time working with coloured clay slips—liquid fine clay applied to the surface before glazing and firing—and the experience opened a new direction within his practice.

The form of the vase, known as Hornbæk Krukken, emerged from a dialogue between Susanne Risom, owner of Galleriet Hornbæk, and the artist Pylle Søndergård. The vessel reflects an international ceramic vocabulary, drawing on both Japanese and English traditions. The vase is produced by one of Northern Europe’s most skilled potters, Bjarne Puggaard.