Thursday, June 26, 2014
Utah Arts Festival 2014: Robert Wilhelm
Posted By Ehren Clark on June 26, 2014, 3:25 PM
With this degree and more than 20 years of experience, does Wilhelm sculpt the figure, blown glass, or exotic pottery? No, for 19 years Wilhelm has been sculpting pepper mills. Says Wilhelm, “It kind of took over my life. Now I do designs for huge pepper companies, I’ve won design awards. In the business, it took a while before I made peace with what I was doing, but now I love it and I’ve been doing it for 19 years.”
Of these extraordinary and eye-catching mills, the only component that is not of Wilhelm’s own creation is a US ceramic crusher adjustable to salt and pepper. A lathe allows Wilhelm to create the body of each unique piece. The same process is used for the magnificent sculpted wooden bowls that Wilhelm also crafts. Accentuating the crafted form is “Pop-art”-like decorative work designed individually for each piece. The process is a mature one, begun from a design tradition in Italy that Wilhelm has studied and mastered, and carries on.
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