The relationship between form and surface is what makes the works of Enno Jäkel so special: surface pattern that grows with form.
What at first sight seems so simple and harmonious is in fact the product of a long and intensive investigation into the effects of textile structures on clay surfaces. These organically structured patterns cover his pieces giving them life
while simultaneously exuding a meditative aesthetic.

He sees his work as a game of dissolving patterns whose states of order expand to extremities without ever becoming chaotic.
What is interesting for him, compared to forms whose surfaces are a secondary process, is that the power of the form gives strength to the surface.
"They tell through the material clay the story of a development process" and so it is that a closer relationship is created between the surface and form. Solos that come together to form beautiful duets.

Jäkels works are the result of a carefully executed procedure where the slightest change can have dramatic effects on the end product.
Cylinders are thrown and then scooped from the inside out. The further the skin of the form is stretched, the more
interesting the surface becomes.
Patterns can be captured well on organic fruit-like forms. Jäkel states " I aim at creating objects of intensive aesthetic sensuality that demand longer confrontation from the spectator."
His swollen forms are enveloped with surfaces that are rough, hard but ironically pleasurable. Enno Jäkel has shed new light on a small path in the maze of the ceramic field.

Enno Jäkel was born in Dortmund in 1967. After graduating from secondary school in 1986, he attended the vocational college for ceramics in Landshut, where he qualified as a ceramist. Between 1991-94 he worked as a journeyman potter at the Frenzel studio in Siegburg. From 1994-97 he attended the college of ceramic design in Höhr-Grenzhausen, where he quali¬fied as a designer. In 1998, an extensive study trip took him to Thailand, Nepal, New Zeeland and the Fiji-Islands as well as the south west of the USA. As early as 1991, he was awarded the landshut college's prize for the best gradu¬ation work, which he repeated in 1997 when he won the prize of the society of friends of the ceramics colleges in Höhr-Grenzhausen. Finally in 2001 he was awarded the state prize for crafts in the field of ceramics in North Rhine-¬Westphalia. Since 1999 he runs his own studio in Cologne.