Category Archives: Signature/Mark/Chop

Connie Pike Page Added To the Studio Ceramics Canada Website

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Connie Pike Today

Connie PikeToday, Her APA Portrait

A page on Alberta ceramist Connie Pike, https://studioceramicscanada.com/connie-pike/, has been added to the website studioceramicscanada.com. Connie has been a key presence in Alberta since the late 1970s and is still going strong. Enjoy the history, images and text on her extensive production and art work.

This page has been underway for a long, long, long time. With classic timing I connected with Connie last year,  the very day High River, Alberta, was hit by extensive flooding.  Pike studios has well recovered. Connie has been most patient.

Studio Ceramics Canada New Page on Pottery on Prince Edward Island

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Pottery on Prince Edward Island Website

Pottery on Prince Edward Island Website

studioceramicscanada.com has published a new page Pottery on Prince Edward Island. Not all collections are physical, material. This one is virtual, a website. The collection is of particular interest in that the publisher, Ian Scott, has also had the foresight to document artists’ signatures and marks. This is a gift to collectors and researchers. If only more organizations,sites and publications would do the same. Identification and collecting would be so much easier.

Artist Paula Murray Page added to studio ceramics.com website

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Paula Murray

Paula Murray

A new page on the Meech Lake artist, Paula Murray, has been added to the website studioceramicscanada.com.

Paula Murray’s porcelain works reflect an inquisitive mind exploring the natural and the spiritual within the individual and within the group. Shells and shorelines, bowls and reeds are her literal subjects, as individuals or in groups. Within these forms she explores the forms and stresses, the cracks and pressures of surface and shape as porcelain and fibreglass are folded, pressed and stained. Her work displays effects ranging from an almost exact individual zoological precision to the subtle metaphorical individuality of surfaces and shapes within a grouping. Subtlety and contemplation are constants.

Stay tuned. More pages are in the works on artists such as Ann Mortimer, Susan Collett, Enid Legros-Wise, Connie Pike, Les Manning, Stan and Jean Clarke and many others. Anyone who has memories or images of these artists they would be willing to share please contact me.

New Post on the Hansen-Ross Pottery

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Hansen-Ross Group, nd, courtesy Tyler Peace collection

Hansen-Ross Group, nd, courtesy Tyler Peace collection

Welcome to a new page on studioceramicscanada.com on the Hansen-Ross Pottery in Fort Qu’ Appelle, Saskatchewan. David Ross  and Folmer Hansen maintained a joint studio focusing on Scandinavian and Leach-inspired art in the middle of the Canadian prairies. Much of the material is based on an interview I had with Folmer Hansen many years ago.

Stay tuned. More pages are in the works on artists such as Paula Murray, Ann Mortimer, Susan Collett, Enid Legros-Wise, Connie Pike, Les Manning, Stan and Jean Clarke and many others. Anyone who has memories or images of these artists they would be willing to share please contact me.

Ruth Gowdy McKinley Page Published

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studioceramicscanada.com has just published a new page on the iconic artist Ruth Gowdy McKinley. Much of the page is based on an interview I conducted with Ruth, December 8, 1980. Much help was also provided by her daughter, Lauren McKinley Renzetti. Thank you Lauren.

Click on the link above and enjoy the page, the images and the passion of a great ceramist.

Barry Morrison

Do you recognize these pottery marks?

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A little help please. Does anyone recognize these artists’ marks below?

Unknown Pot Signature 1

Unknown Pot Signature 1

The first may have Inuit connections from the ’60s or ’70s even though the signature itself does not appear Inuit. The clay seems to be a heavily grogged stoneware. The base looks as though it was cut straight from the batt.

bluebird pot signature 1

bluebird pot signature 1

The second may have come from the London region. The foot is trimmed with the signature incised before the glaze firing.

Just leave a comment to this post. Many thanks for any help.

New Artist Page: Alexandra McCurdy

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Alexandra McCurdy, 2011

Alexandra McCurdy, 2011

A new artist page has been added to the website. Alexandra McCurdy is a Halifax, Nova Scotia, artist. Her work is strongly autobiographical using themes from feminism and her own personal history to produce mysterious and symbolic forms, spaces and surfaces. Enjoy reading about her life, her thoughts and, of course, her work

Keith Campbell Page Update

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Keith Campbell's Chop Mark

Keith Campbell’s Chop Mark

I have updated Keith Campbell’s page with a new chop mark and a copy of the face of his business card. I am always trying to keep the site as current as possible. Chops, marks, signatures are items on which I receive a goodly number of enquiries. It seem to be a subject of great interest to collectors.