Artists

Leta and Don Cormier,
North Gower, Ontario.

We endeavor to make pottery vessels that embody a natural quality of beauty & life that people can use and enjoy in their everyday lives.

Lisa Creskey,
Farrellton, Quebec.

The earthenware bodies that I build become homes for my paintings. The clay becomes a world of both intimacy and expanse for my paintings to inhabit, to tell their stories and explore.

Michael Doxey

Portland, Ontario.

Michael's work symbolises life forces. His work combines an artistic experience with a rugged functionality.

John Ikeda,
St. Bernadin,Ontario.

The process of addition and removal of subtle and complex layers of color is a technique I use to achieve an imagery of figure on ground; a conceptually similar technique within landscape painting. The essential difference is my aesthetic preference for abstraction.

Kinya Ishikawa,
Val David, Quebec

I wish that one day, my pieces can be found in an antique shop or at the flea market and not in a museum. This way, I know that my pottery will be used as simple objects bringing to its user the pleasure of daily use.

Christina MacEwan,
Ottawa, Ontario.

Maureen Marcotte,
Wakefield, Quebec.

Maureen's work has become well known for its intensely decorated surfaces using a rich palette of glaze colours and textures. Each piece is thrown individually on a potter's wheel and then decorated by hand. Maureen uses wax resist and underglaze colours to create intricate and complex patterns.

Lesley McInally

Since leaving my native Scotland, landscape, seascape, weather and historical monuments have had a storng influence on my approach to clay. The finished result becomes a vessel with reference to the natural drift and change of forms exposed to the elements over time.

Paula Murray,
Meech Lake, Quebec.

My approach is symbolic of the forces at play on ones physical being. Work was selected for both the 5th World Ceramic and the Cheongju Craft Biennales in Korea (2009)

Cynthia O’Brien,
Ottawa, Ontario.

My work is based on relationships, a reflection of humanity through nature.
The abstracted natural forms suggest sexuality, fear, birth and death.
I wish to entice the viewer through curiosity and discomfort.

Suzie Osler,
Perth, Ontario.

My work is inspired by the abundance and fecundity of the natural world. An avid gardener, I am constantly drawn to, and amazed by, the astounding details of the plant, insect, and animal world, the cycles of creation, growth, decay and renewal, and above all, the vitality and persistence of life's 'spirit'. Similarly, my work aims to delight - through colour, detail, complexity, and reference.

Saskia Praamsma
Clayton, Ontario.

In my work I am influenced by other cultures. At this time I am especially inspired by architecture from the Far East to Middle and South America and Lanark county where I live.
The end-products are textured handbuilt vessels.

Carolynne Pynn-Trudeau,
Ottawa, Ontario.

"Is this a new pot or an old pot? Have I seen this before? Why does it remind me of my aunt?"

Bill Reddick's work is concerned primarily with expressing beauty. His contemporary designs in porcelain reflect both Chinese ceramic traditions and Bill's roots as a functional potter

Marie-Ange Samon

Quebec.

Using fragments of myth, thought and allegory. I try to create a dreamline environment. I like the memory of the clay, its ability to link us to the past.

Tim Storey,
Cormac, Ontario.

Tim Storey's work ranges from the historical to the hysterical. Birds, fish, mammals and
reptiles are pressganged into teapot service along side spaceships, flying saucers, trees
and steamships.

Chandler Swain,
Blakeney, Ontario.

The main focus of my work is using clay to make figures. The big challenge is to work as a sculptor rather than a potter, this requires different skills and emphasis.

Raymond Warren,
Maniwaki, Quebec.