Darya Bing's life has a habit of running in circles. Growing up in an artists' village, her childhood was spent in the workspaces of master artists, particularly her father, who ran a burgeoning multidisciplinary sculpture-ceramic-architecture studio.
A life in the creative realm was always a given, and Darya went on to a classical education in fine arts, followed by years working as a set designer and art director in London. Enter Gidon Bing, Darya's artist and ceramicist husband, and the circle is complete. Life is now very much about the pair's two studios for ceramics and plaster sculpture, their three daughters and a quarter-acre rambling edible garden which is threatening to take over their house.
In the midst of several projects, including garment designs, a series of small sculptures and adding a wild flower meadow to her backyard offerings, Darya's inspiration arrives in all forms, from the serendipity of chance encounters, to admiration of another's craft and the boundless creativity of a child's mind. She approaches her work with playful irreverence, guided by the aesthetic principle that the best design is accomplished when nothing can be taken away or changed, except for the worse.
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