All artists can recall the first time they encountered their preferred medium and for ceramic artist Lana Trzebinski, who is showing her first selling exhibition with online auctioneer de Pury, the moment played out under Kenyan skies: ‘As a child, I remember when it rained, playing with mud in the garden and making little mini mud huts, we weren’t sculpting vases or vessels, but my contact with clay and mud goes further back than I recognise. Playing with my father, there wasn’t a moment when we weren’t doing some kind of activity in nature. It was either in the ocean or in the bush,’ she reminisces.
