Artist's Statement
"Amphora",
earthenware coated with terra sigillata,
20" tall x 13" wide,
2002
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.
"2 Jugbirds",
earthenware, slip-painted with terra sigillata and clear glaze,
each 10" long x 5" tall,
2002
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.
"Dragonfly Bowl",
earthenware, slip-painted with terra sigillata and clear glaze,
13" wide x 9" tall,
2002
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.
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