About

Roberto Landin Baamonde

Third year Fine Art Student at Middlesex University London

With a clear interest in exploring surface throughout my practice, I have been experimenting with the juxtaposition of different materials and with the possibilities of their interaction, as well as with new ways of working with ceramics and glass.

What I like about ceramics is that you work with a material which is unstable, unpredictable and alive with memory and its own character, and so there is a need for dialogue between the clay and the artist. The artist is forced to work with the accident and ‘letting it be’, therefore I found a human quality to the work. As in life, you need to learn to accept and be flexible with the outcome because things do not always come out as you imagine or desire.

The outcome is a highly textured surface which invites to be felt, but at the same time needs to be protected.

As with human emotions and desires that most of the time remain hidden forms, so shapes, textures and colours are revealed to the viewer in a visual game.

This is a research file-blog were I collect artists, articles, images, suppliers related to my practice and interest.