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Matilda Angus Ceramics Art studio of Matilda Angus - A Hatchery of the Imagination. a place where ideas like chrysalises reach maturity. Grow wings. This was my “Clay as a hobby” stage.

Artist Statement

The earth has always been my very best playmate. As a child I created my own fairy tale world making mud pies, building mud houses complete with stick furniture and leaf carpets. I grew up in the wet wildness of the Lowveld, now called Limpopo province, which lavished on me unlimited supplies of material for my art. For the past thirty years, using clay as medium has formed an integral part of my life, and looking back I see how I have given expression through it of the changing seasons of my life. I have no formal training in the arts or ceramics, but sports a B.Sc in Mathematics to impress people with. I trained with a production potter in the 1980’s and fell in love with the heads over heels speed in which I could spin out pieces on a potter’s wheel. Then a season of being a commercial potter followed. I delivered thousands of bonsai bowls made on order for a large nursery, loading them in the back of my kombi, along with my children’s sport gear. Though it supplied me with some pocket money, it wasn’t nourishing to my creativity. The season for using clay as medicine arrived when I went through a divorce. I discovered how expressing my feelings through sculpture brought healing and balance. Many of these sculptures now stand witness to my first realization of my true identity: that of being an artist. So here I am again: an artist child playing with the earth. Nature speaks to my soul. She speaks my mother tongue and I try to capture and show her beauty in the gently curve of a leaf form or the imprint of a lacy fern frond. The process involved in creating through the medium of clay in itself is one of using the very basic elements that give life on this planet: that of fire, earth, water and air. Maybe deep down, it is clay’s potential for primal expression that keeps me captivated by it. Maybe. But maybe I just enjoy having an excuse to play in the mud. Matilda Angus

Glorious weather to be doing what you love. Restory Retreat Centre
10/10/2026

Glorious weather to be doing what you love. Restory Retreat Centre

Great News! Donations for our Harvest table at the Arty Party are enough to keep 120 mouths happy! So we’re lifting the ...
21/09/2026

Great News! Donations for our Harvest table at the Arty Party are enough to keep 120 mouths happy! So we’re lifting the Booking closure date and last minute walk-ins will be allowed if seats are still available. Isn’t that great! Wakkerstroom rocks! Do book though, you don’t want to be disappointed. Tickets at events.thryve.com/wacf Wakkerstroom Art and Craft Fair

I’m booked, very few tickets left for this workshop!
19/09/2026

I’m booked, very few tickets left for this workshop!

I for one, have always wanted to try my hand at screen-printing. See you there! Alice Tindall comes highly recommended by the Karoo Winter Wool Festival. Don't miss out on this art experience with her!
Wakkerstroom Art & Craft Fair
Book soon at events.thryve.com/wacf

Great workshop to choose, if you’re asking me!
07/09/2026

Great workshop to choose, if you’re asking me!

Our festival artist of 2026 returns to present this delightful pottery workshop. Clay coiling is one of the basic hand building techniques in pottery and leads to unlimited possibilities in creating with clay. Enjoy Saturday afternoon in the expert hands of Eylene who herself mostly uses coils in building her magnificent vessels. Book soon. Eylene Clifford Wakkerstroom Art and Craft Fair

10/07/2026

“Metaphor catalyzes movement by overriding old and familiar patterns of thought with fresh ways of seeing. This is why art and poetry are so important to culture.

It is the job of the artist to catalyze consciousness on behalf of the collective. They must be courageous enough to enter the imaginal in order to find living metaphors to bring back to this world and in doing so, redeem culture. It is an act of overcoming.

As the poet Louise Glück says, art removes “the misery of inertia.”⁠

A metaphor unrecognized will do nothing to shape us, and so in turn we can do nothing differently to shape our world. What’s needed is a true encounter in the imagination to shift one’s gestalt.”

Excerpt from The Dreaming Way by Toko-pa Turner (thedreamingway.com)

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Barrowfield Farm
Utrecht
2980

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