Pat Webber’s pottery shouts out her love of animals and narrative. Her beautiful pot forms are classic, functional, but altered to feature her storytelling creatures. The glazes range from intense greens and turquoises to earthy wood fired, ash wrapped russets and terra cottas.
Harvest Helpers
She is currently working on a series called The Hare and The Hound, which explores this unlikely friendship. These days Hare and Hound deliver pots down river and across the ocean in boats. The frogs are the potters, amongst other things.
Second GlancePig
Fired Up 2014
Studio Location
Pat Webber Pottery
425 Stewart Road
Salt Spring Island, BC V8K 2C4
Phone: 250-537-8871
Email: jwebber@saltspring.com
“Original Artwork that Will Stand the Test of Time.”
A self-taught explorative potter, Mary Fox is an artist whose innovative and inspired creations have garnered her National & International critical acclaim. Securing a reputation, through her practice, as a dedicated and highly skilled craft artist, Fox’s work focuses on creating contemporary pieces, based on classic lines that express the beauty and strength of pure forms. From inspired glazes to chalices that seem to spring up from the earth, each of Mary’s pieces tell their own story, evoking a sense of wonder and intensity that is both delicate and strong.
Bottle Vase with Navy Terra Sigilatta and Crawl Glaze
This is one of my favorite pieces. It is decorated with a crawl glaze applied over a terra sigillata slip. I first started developing my crawl glazes in 1996, and what a learning curve it was! Crawl glazes are loaded up with a lot of extra clay. Clay shrinks as it dries and then shrinks even more when it is fired. This glaze beads up in the firing to reveal the slip underneath. The pieces with more than one colour of crawl glaze have been fired several times and had an additional application of glaze after each firing to create the multiple layers of colour.
Chalice by Mary Fox:15″ W x 10 3/4″ T
“Pursuit of beauty is a constant in my life. It infuses everything I do. When working on vessels created to adorn our tables I derive pleasure from knowing that, through the subtle intimacy that grows from their daily use, these pieces will become treasures in people’s lives.”
Mary Fox Pottery, Gallery
Fox’s Gallery and studio are open year round to the public. She is prolific and exhibits regularly so there is always a large selection of both the functional and the decorative works to choose from. She walks her dog in the mornings, so mornings are by chance.
Gordon’s work shows a long developing exploration of form texture and colour. He mixes together natural minerals and chemical elements and thru the art of complex firings, where subtle nuances in the character of the flame can make a dramatic difference, he brings these glazes to life.
Organic Iridesence
Here is an expression of balance, not just physical, but the balance between control and spontaneity, traditional and contemporary, technique and creative thought.
Meira Mathison has maintained a studio, Dancerwood Pottery in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada for over 35 years. For the past 30 years she has conducted workshops throughout British Columbia, Alberta, Canada, U.S.A., England and Mexico.
Nestled teapot
Meira exhibits her unique high-fire altered porcelain though art shows, Dancerwood Pottery, and galleries throughout Canada and the United States. Her work has been featured in many magazines and publications including:
“The T-Pot Book”, A & C Black – Steve Woodhead, England
“The Spirit of Ceramic Design” – Robert Pipenburg
Woodfire Cruet Set
Meira was the Executive Director for the Metchosin Int’l School of the Arts for over 22 years, recently stepping down to spend more time in her studio. She still coordinates the ceramic program for the school.
My pots reflect my life – ever changing, nothing is static. A life full of colour, fun and family. I grew up surrounded by flowers, animals and ocean.
My thrown altered forms, thick slips, layered glazes and inlaid imprints create movement that dance throughout my pots and reflect my environment
