Welcome to Antoinette Badenhorst Porcelain website
Antoinette's inspiration comes from circles, cycles, and seasons.
There is no such thing as perfection, just a strive to be perfect.
The Diva is addicted to water. If she gets too much, she gets drunk and collapses.
Antoinette was demonstrating a wide rimmed bowl process in South Africa.
Porcelain is worked as a clay, but when fired to vitrification, it becomes a semi-glass
Luminous porcelain forms, shaped by light and movement.
This image shows a group of sculptural porcelain vessels arranged closely together, glowing in soft light. Each piece has an organic, petal-like form—almost like open flowers or seashells—with flowing, folded edges. The surfaces are smooth and translucent, catching the light so the colors shift gently from pale blue and creamy white to warm peach and coral tones.
The overall feel is elegant and luminous, highlighting the delicacy of the porcelain and the way light interacts with the thin, curved walls of each piece. There are similar porcelain artworks available in Antoinettes online shop.
The overall feel is elegant and luminous, highlighting the delicacy of the porcelain and the way light interacts with the thin, curved walls of each piece. There are similar porcelain artworks available in Antoinettes online shop.
Since porcelain is a manmade clay body, it will differ from composition to composition,
but in is broadest definition, it will always have the same demands.
but in is broadest definition, it will always have the same demands.
This is a grid made from test tiles. Antoinette altered glaze recipes and overlapped the glazes to create new results.
Always remember where you come from.
Antoinette interviewed at PBS by Malcolm White, former Director of the Mississippi Arts Commission.
The images above represents 40+ years of Antoinettes ceramic career. Antoinette had studios in South Africa and the USA.
Koos and Antoinette Badenhorst , owners of TeachinArt and Porcelain by Antoinette.
Antoinette Badenhorst is a porcelain artist based in Saltillo, Mississippi. She has led hands-on porcelain workshops in her own studio and at art centers and institutions throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, South Africa, Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, and Slovenia.
Deeply committed to arts integration in education, Antoinette is actively involved in schools across Mississippi. She recently earned her Teaching Artist Certification through the Mississippi Whole School Project after completing an intensive, year-long training program.
Her work and teaching have been featured in numerous international magazines, books, newspapers, and across television, radio, and blog interviews.
Together with her husband, Koos Badenhorst, she is the co-founder and owner of Teach in Art—an online school for arts education. The platform brings together 13 internationally recognized ceramic instructors and serves students in 58 countries and island nations around the world.
If you'd like, I can also make a shorter bio, a website version, or a press-kit version.
Grant from the Mississippi Arts Commision
During 2025 Antoinette received another small, but very valuable grant from the Mississippi Arts Commision.
Although this is a small grant the importance thereof should not be underestimated, since it show a willingness of the Arts Commision to partner with artists who are willing to give their best to their community.
This project is supported in part by funding from the Mississippi Arts Commission, a state agency, and in part, from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
