Artist’s Bio

Cindy began making pottery professionally over 20 years ago, when she was a young mother living in Roberts Creek, BC. She exhibited her work in craft fairs and retail outlets up and down the coast and on Vancouver Island. In the late 1980's she moved to the city, regretfully putting her life as a craftsperson on hold for several years. Recently she and her husband were able to buy an artist's live/work studio, a dream come true for both of them (he also is a visual artist). She is now able to practise her craft again, and joyfully get muddy as often as possible.

She makes one-of-a-kind pieces, usually bowls, most of them thrown on the wheel and later modified by means of carving, cut-outs, slip-trailing and other textural add-ons. Occasionally she uses metallic lustres and decorative accents (these pieces should not be put in the microwave or dishwasher). Since moving to the Vancouver studio, she has been working almost exclusively with a mid-range (cone 6) porcelain, fired in oxidation. Firing at cone 6 has broadened and brightened her glaze colour palette, allowing her to use colourants (such as chrome-tin pinks) that would burn out at more traditional porcelain temperatures.

There are a number of elements she strives to bring together in her work:
- simplicity and elegance of form;
- a line the eye is pleased to follow;
- a shape that feels good to hold in both hands;
- glazing that "fits" the pot, aesthetically as well as physically.

Carving, cut-outs, and other textural "interruptions" are intended to augment and punctuate the basic form. Cut-outs and metallic lustres also play with light, reflecting it and letting it in and out. Interaction between form and light is perhaps the most important element of all. When everything fits well together, the piece has a certain luminosity or "glow" . It could hold light - or lentils, if required!
(Just don't fill it up past the cut-outs.)