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Carolinda Tolstoy
Carolinda Tolstoy is a London-based ceramicist. Her work is very important in international private collections of ceramic and Islamic art. Her work had been published in books, journals, and newspapers throughout the world. Her work has also been shown on several television documentaries. Carolinda spends some of her time demonstrating and teaching scholars and students.
In 2002 Professor Ernst J. Grube noticed Carolinda’s work. He wrote a book called “Carolinda Tolstoy Ceramics” and he clearly states that Tolstoy’s ceramics are the direct continuation of 16th and 17th century Safavid art of Persia and the Iznik art of Turkey.
Carolinda has traveled throughout Russia, the Middle East, and North Africa. She has studied the pottery of the Ancient world, looking closely at the borderlands where the central cultures combined with older, local forms. She has studied the stylistic links running south to north from Persia through Central Asia to Russia. Her sided bowls and bellied pots, recall the ceramics of renaissance Persia.
Several well-known London galleries represent Carolinda, such as Garden of Eden Gallery and New Grafton Gallery, She also has a joint lasting exhibition with Alan Caiger-Smith at Primavera in Cambridge. In the Middle East the most important gallery, Dar al Fanoon, in Kuwait, and also at Turkey’s leading gallery, the SUAV Foundation, represents her. The School of Oriental and African Studies of London University and Credit Suisse, Zurich also collects her pieces.
Tolstoy supplies ceramics to interior decorator suppliers such as George Renwick. At the beginning of her career she worked at Chelsea Pottery, as well as making ceramics for the General Trading Company. She continues to work in important studios international. She has recently begun partnership with a Russian dress designer for the Marinsky Opera to decorate eveningwear also creating her first collection of abstract sculptures. Carolinda’s pieces range anywhere from £250 to £4,000.
Carolinda Tolstoy is a London-based ceramicist. Her work is very important in international private collections of ceramic and Islamic art. Her work had been published in books, journals, and newspapers throughout the world. Her work has also been shown on several television documentaries. Carolinda spends some of her time demonstrating and teaching scholars and students.
In 2002 Professor Ernst J. Grube noticed Carolinda’s work. He wrote a book called “Carolinda Tolstoy Ceramics” and he clearly states that Tolstoy’s ceramics are the direct continuation of 16th and 17th century Safavid art of Persia and the Iznik art of Turkey.
Carolinda has traveled throughout Russia, the Middle East, and North Africa. She has studied the pottery of the Ancient world, looking closely at the borderlands where the central cultures combined with older, local forms. She has studied the stylistic links running south to north from Persia through Central Asia to Russia. Her sided bowls and bellied pots, recall the ceramics of renaissance Persia.
Several well-known London galleries represent Carolinda, such as Garden of Eden Gallery and New Grafton Gallery, She also has a joint lasting exhibition with Alan Caiger-Smith at Primavera in Cambridge. In the Middle East the most important gallery, Dar al Fanoon, in Kuwait, and also at Turkey’s leading gallery, the SUAV Foundation, represents her. The School of Oriental and African Studies of London University and Credit Suisse, Zurich also collects her pieces.
Tolstoy supplies ceramics to interior decorator suppliers such as George Renwick. At the beginning of her career she worked at Chelsea Pottery, as well as making ceramics for the General Trading Company. She continues to work in important studios international. She has recently begun partnership with a Russian dress designer for the Marinsky Opera to decorate eveningwear also creating her first collection of abstract sculptures. Carolinda’s pieces range anywhere from £250 to £4,000.