Category Archives: Contemporary

2000-present

Artist Paula Murray Page added to studio ceramics.com website

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 Artist Page: Alexandra McCurdy

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

The Pottery Supply House Website Added to Studio Ceramics Canada

Pottery Supply House  Showroom

Pottery Supply House Showroom

I have added links to one of the most important and oldest retails suppliers to ceramists. They also have an extensive collection of Canadian Studio Ceramics. Check out the new page The Pottery Supply House.

Robin Hopper: A new page added to the Studio Ceramics Canada website

Robin-Hopper

Robin-Hopper

I have added a page on Vancouver Island  icon Robin Hopper. You can see the page at new Robin Hopper page. 

Enjoy and pass the word around.

A new page “About Barry Morrison” added

Barry Morrison

Barry Morrison

Due to popular demand I have added a page that gives a bit of a history on myself. I was able to also find a few pictures to bring the words to life. Enjoy  About Barry Morrison

We’ve gone live!

Welcome to the website studioceramicscanada.com. Bookmark this site or follow the site by clicking on the “Follow” button and entering your email.

Elaine Harrison, Monika Smith, Barry Morrison, Alice Switzer, Darlene Swan at the APA conference "Off Centre" Calgary, May 10-11, 2013

Elaine Harrison, Monika Smith, Barry Morrison, Alice Switzer, Darlene Swan at the APA conference “Off Centre” Calgary, May 10-11, 2013

Read through the sampling of pages created to get a feel for where we are going. There will be many more pages to come. Some of the pages we are working on will give you an idea of where we are going over the next several months and years: Les Manning, John Chalke, the Deichmanns, Peter Rupchan, Gaetan Beaudin. Alain Tremblay, Phil and Alice Switzer, Connie Pike, Peter Powning, Tim Worthington, Pam Birdsall, Ann Mortimer, Robin Hopper, the Selfridges, Jack Sures, Alexandra McCurdy, Carol Smeraldo, and many more!

Unlike a book or an article the site will be ever-evolving, updated and accessible to other ceramists, to collectors, curators, gallery owners, auctioneers and the buying public. A currently existing page can be updated or revised as new information becomes available. Power to the internet!

If you would like to be included by having a page on the site just contact me at studioceramicscanada@gmail.com. We can then talk to discuss how best to get your career, your work and images on the internet. There should be no cost to you apart from the bit of time to talk, correspond and share pictures. The site will complement your own website (if you have one) not replace it. Your presence and accessibility can only be enhanced by expanding your internet presence.

If you would like me to come and speak to your group or at an event, contact me and we can work out a plan.

Join your fellow artists and collectors, and me in this exciting adventure. We have only just begun!