Robbie Hiedinger

Robbie Heidinger, Westhampton, MA

Robbie Heidinger began working in clay in 1991, desiring a three-dimensional canvas. The intersection of painting and clay has fueled more than two decades of exploration in ceramics. Robbie’s work is very touchable. It satisfies the urge to feel something attractively “natural,” and more seductively, rewards the user by connecting them with a very potent and tightly focused abstraction of the tissues and structures of organic life. This—the psychosomatic connection occurring during the act of using the piece—unleashes the potencies of Robbie’s expression. Watch a plant grow, and you see its intention is perfect. It uses just the right shape, amount of color, and texture to fulfill its pliant, living design. Robbie works to emulate this “biosophy” in clay – without doing realistic imitations of plants.