Artist’s
Statement
Clay has
been a major part of my life for more than three decades now!
At a Teacher Training College in London, England, I concentrated on
painting and lino print-making but was fascinated by pots being made
downstairs and took one course.
Quite a few years later,
after I had immigrated to Canada to teach in
Montreal, moved West,
married an archaeologist and we'd bought our first and only house here
in Port Moody, I took pottery classes. While our two sons grew up I was
lucky to be able to make and sell pots from home, and teach
wheelthrowing at various community centres and schools in the Tricities
area.
One of the
best ideas I've had was to apply to go to Emily Carr College of Art
& Design (now Institute) in 1991. Three years fulltime, with
intensive Summer classes too, led to my BFA and the confidence to
consider myself an artist.
Since
then I've shared a studio in Vancouver, helped to launch an Arts
Centre in Port Moody with a flourishing clay programme, and now have
reestablished a comfortable studio in my basement and garden/kiln shed.
I teach intermediate
wheelthrowing at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts,
Burnaby, and offer
workshops on the application of slips to leatherhard
clay tiles and pots.
Phone or email to ask the date of the next workshop. Sometimes I enjoy
working on collaborations and special commissions.
Artist’s
Works
"Amphora",earthenware coated with terra
sigillata, 20" tall x 13" wide,
2002
Works can be viewed at the
following venues:
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Craft House Gallery, 1386 Cartwright Street,
Granville Island, Vancouver, BC phone: (604) 687-7270
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Gallery of BC Ceramics, 1359 Cartwright
Street, Granville Island, Vancouver BC phone: (604) 669-5645
Banner Images
"Rooster", 2003, ceramic (photo
by Ken Mayer courtesy of Van Dop Gallery)
"Watering Canard" , salt glazed ceramic, 2007 (photo by Alan Mcmillan)
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