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Saturday Art Saves: Ingridd Knoblich

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Each Saturday I focus on a different artist that I admire. From potters to painters, chefs to collectors, seamstress to songwriters, lifestyle to lovers… anyone who set the paintbrush, pastry brush, hands and heart on fire to create.

Those who inspire art to flow where it may. Ingridd Knoblich.

 

 

 

 

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From the hands of the potter, Ingridd, who wore an apron that read, "Getting better with age," 

"I'm all day on birds," says Ingridd Knoblich and its many wrinkles around the eyes with a laugh, but this sentence makes their job very well indeed. For the 70-year-old with violet-blue eyes and white bob "makes" tits out of clay, which she sells for $ 20 apiece. Her studio is in a former water tower, their hands are blue from kneading. Knoblich is originally from Hildesheim and stumbles at every second sentence is still sharp on the stone, although she has lived since 1969 in Mendocino." via Visit Mendocino.

 

 

 

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Perched on a fence post the hand crafted birds seem to strut their stuff, as they fluffed their feathers, and chirped, "Pick me, pick me!" A nearby sign said: "Birds for sale. Pick the one you want and leave $20 in the box below."

Trust and Freedom is their song.

 

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For more information regarding Ingridd:

10551 Kasten 

Mendocino, California

95460

Phone: 707-937-1667

 

Comments

6 responses to “Saturday Art Saves: Ingridd Knoblich”

  1. Marilyn

    Ahhh! Art from Mendocino! Such sweet birds. I bet you could find alot of art there.

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  2. Shelley Noble

    LOVE THESE! Charm charm charm!

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  3. Doris

    How serendipitous this post is! I remember reading about these clay birds on your blog and was actually trying to find the original post. Thank you so very much! Doing the happy dance. Thank you so much, Corey.

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  4. Patti Lloyd

    How I love Mendocino! I too have similar photos of her birds. I am envious of artists who get to live there. There is much there to photograph. Did you get to meet the cat in the Book store? I had some fabulous photos of him!

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  5. Marci

    I adore Ingridd’s little birds….I have 5 perched on my kitchen window sill!

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  6. Zorana

    I have heard about Ingrid’s birds years ago, but couldn’t find the information where. I can’t believe my luck – to hear about it again, and from so far away. Thank you so much! Mendocino, here I come 🙂

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