Inspired by Architecture
Artist Bio
Camille Delgado Sales is an Architectural Residential Designer and Potter living in Austin, Texas. She was born in Puerto Rico and credits the culture for her love of color. She has found ways to express color in her pottery work.
She attended the University of Florida for an undergraduate degree in Architecture. She received a Master's degree in Architecture at the University of Texas. She has practiced residential architecture for 24+ years as sole owner of her business.
In 2019, she felt the urgency to pursue pottery and has been balancing architecture and studio time since then. Her work is influenced by the spaces she has designed, graphics, textiles, and ornamentation. She is interested in the ways color and line work are expressed on pottery. She feels it is a delight to bring drawing techniques, color, and clay together into a body of work.
Artist statement
My pottery invites you to enter the place we call home. I’ve spent the last 20+ years designing homes in the Austin area. Through hundreds of interactions, It’s been my life’s work to draw out what people want in a home and create space to surround us.
Designing a home is like gathering pieces of a puzzle that must come together to create a complete image. Each family is different in how they move through spaces, gather with each other and friends, retreat and even do mundane things like laundry, putting away groceries and dropping the clutter as they enter home. My pottery depicts these relationships using fine lines, color and pattern.
Regardless of these various patterns of movement, we seek spaces where we find peace within our walls. Through imagery, I illustrate some of these rooms. Mud rooms are the drop zone. We come in loaded with life and it is the first place to begin releasing… moving further into the familiar, seeking respite, nourishment and community. Kitchens, the heart of a home, are one of my favorite spaces to depict. They provide a place to cook and nourish our bodies, as well as entertain, pay the bills and answer homework questions.
In the midst of these spaces, the sense of belonging brings peace. I pay tribute to the walls that delineate a home. Through several layers of process, using images from my past work, sketches, a light table, a metal writer tip and colored slip, my work invites you to glimpse a place of possibility. Home is possibility and belonging.
Come in, linger and… welcome home.
Contact
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Line & Clay | Austin Texas