‘My life and my raison d’être’: Rare honour for artist’s decades-long dedication

On her website (hiroeswenceramicart.org), Swen wrote: “Living in a new country, working with different clay, seeing different approaches of other artists to ceramics certainly gave me ongoing challenges … Looking back, the years that have elapsed seem both long and short. I still don’t have a sense of achievement, but ceramics has become my life and my raison d’être.”