Check
out their work and further information on the individual potters.
Graeme
Allemeersch Pottery The visual dance of form and decoration with whimsical
shapes and flamboyant coloration on majolica pottery.
Suzy Birstein Colourful,
whimsical sculptures and pottery.
Burke
Mountain Studio Pottery Stoneware, Japanese style pottery.
Chosin Pottery
Stoneware, porcelain pottery.
Shannon Butler
A celebration of clay, proportion, color, ornament, texture, imagination and
function.
John Cloutier
Raku and sculpture.
Creek Clayworks
Elaine throws and alters her work while Mike is known for the slabware he creates
on original forms.
Shelley Combs Making
tiles, plates and sculptural pieces using the house and the tree for inspiration.
Maeva Collins
Wood fired as well as burnished and pit fired pottery with a depth of color
and pattern that begs to be touched.
Nancy Cramer "quintessentially
West Coast" clay and kelp creations.
Liz deBeer Thrown functional
ware and sculptural clay pieces.
Sandra
Dolph Stoneware vases, pottery
Laurie Embree
Individual hand thrown" Vessel Sinks" and accessories, large bowls,
teapots, and all functional ware.
Heather Farrell Unique, functional
high-fired porcelain wares decorated with a horse motif.
Fernando
A. Garcia Sculpture, paintings, erotica.
Julia Gillmor Pottery
Functional Pottery that's contemporary, functional, simple.
Connie Glover
Garden installations, benches, walls.
Alice Hale Raku
and functional pottery.
Kim Baxter Hancock
Unique functional majolica pieces and body sculptures.
Harriet Hiemstra
Earthenware clay, drawing and painting using underglazes with feminine imagery,
evocative of the art deco and flapper era.
Ebina Hide Handcrafted,
truly one-of-a-kind Japanese Ceramics.
Hilary Huntley
Clay wall reliefs, measuring from 2 feet to 6 feet, large vessel forms and sculpture.
Denys James Sculpture,
Kiln building
Susan
Janzen Individually hand thrown and pit fired works of art.
Katie Janyk Hand-shaped
artistic vessels and masks inspired by ancient cultures, fired in raku or sawdust
& pit-fired.
Cathi Jefferson
Salt fired pottery.
Lynn
Johnson Wood fired pottery
Lynda
Jones Burnished/Smoke fire pieces as well as incised blackware.
Don Jung
Slabbed, sculpted, thrown and reduction fired stoneware and porcelain.
Oliver Kaddatz of Kaddatzarts
Unique clay dragon teapots and leaf plates.
Maggi
Kneer Thrown, slabbed and slipcast tableware with a Victorian look
Danny Kostyshin
Millennium Plate Project
Lilach Lotan Artistic
Clay Sculptures
Susan Lepoidevin
Smoke fired sculptural work.
Lilach Lotan Uniquely-designed
wheel-thrown functional Pottery and One-off Ceramic Art.
Susan Marczac
Unique pottery where design and aesthetic meets function and humour.
Vincent Massey
Slabbed, extruded, thrown and altered stoneware
Holly McKeen Crystalline
Glazed Porcelain and Functional Stoneware in unique designs and vivid colors
at Greendale Pottery.
Derek Moore Unique, hand
thrown, slab built, assembled pottery in the form of teapots, pitchers, vases
and decanters.
Gillian McMillan
Painterly earthenware
Sheila Morissette
Functional and sculptural forms that are inspired by nature.
Kathleen Murphy Functional
yet decorative pieces made from stoneware and porcelain clay.
Kathryn O'Regan
Electric fired sculptural work.
Patty Osborne Ruminations
of working with clay
Maria Palotas Functional
and Pueblo inspired pottery
Donna Partridge
Hand cafted, contemporary designed functional and artistic pottery
Linda Phillips Hand
Thrown, functional & decorative, woodfired, raku and novelty pottery.
Stephen Plant
Functional and domestic pottery and dinnerware
Nancy Pridham Handmade,
hand painted pottery, and original paintings by BC artists Nancy and David Pridham
Poplar
Studio Dinnerware, drums and clay instruments
Borgi Rayen Dinnerware.
Keith & Celia Rice-Jones
WildRice Studio Sculptural and domestic ware
Laurie Rolland Sculptural
vessels
Jeanne
Sarich Handbuilt functional mid-fire stoneware.
Phyllis Schwartz
Handbuilt experimental and expressive ceramics in a variety of techniques and
forms.
Al Scott Ikebana
pieces and Functional as well as sculptural vessels, plates and forms.
Kinichi Shigeno
Beautiful, highly decorated ceramic art that extends traditional and explores
contemporary limits.
Pia Sillem Wood fired
vessels, vases, bottles and urns.
Helen Ormiston Smith
Dinnerware and pottery.
YarOn Stern Slip Casting,
functional porcelain and stoneware products.
Pamela Stevenson
Specializing in making high-temperature porcelain vessels suitable for daily
use and ceremonial occasions.
Charleen Stroud
Instructor and educator.
Faro Sullivan
Functional slipware decorated in bright and playful colours, text and animals
with a contemporary twist.
Winnie Tam Beautiful hand-crafted
porcelain jewellery for individual collectors across the world.
Brendan Tang Highly
decorative Modern Ceramic Sculpture
Deb Taylor
Carved stoneware
The Potters Place
co-op of Comox Valley potters with the most elegant, strictly pottery store
an Vancouver Island (according to Les Crimp!)
Patricia Haley-Tsui fun
and functional pottery and sculptures
Nancy Wall Functional
as well as sculptural, life-affirming objects that bring delight and become
an intimate part of daily rituals.
Judy Weeden Slip-carved
vessels, functional & decorative high-fired porcelain in Salt Spring.
Jinny Whitehead
Hand formed and wood fired pottery and sculptures.
Jane
Wolters West coast influenced stoneware pottery and sculpture.
Zea
Wulf Functional stoneware in Burns Lake, B.C.
Dianne Young
Electric fired colourful dinnerware.
National and International Guilds, Galleries, Festivals
Arrowsmith
Potters Guild: www.arrowsmithpottersguild.bc.ca
Fraser Valley Potters Guild: www.members.shaw.ca/faservalleypotters/index_2.htm
Hamilton and Region Potters Guild:
www.hamiltonpotters.ca
Okanagan Potters Association: www.okanaganpotters.ca
Prince George Potters Guild: www.pgpotters.ca
Saskatoon Potters Guild: www.saskatoonpottersguild.netfirms.com/index.htm
South Vancouver Island Potters Guild:
www.mypottery.com
The Potters Place:
www.thepottersplace.ca
Thompson Valley Potters Guild:
www3.telus.net/tvpg/index.htm
British Potters:
www.studiopottery.co.uk/index-f.html
Potters of South Wales:
www.southwalespotters.org.uk
Interesting links:
www.margaretdesign.com
Clay scene on this continent:
www.clayzee.com
Interesting images of contemporary art:
www.ceramicsculpture.com
Japanese Connection:
www.pottery-tech.com
Clay and Glass
Fusion Clay and Glass would like to exchange newsletters with other clay groups.
Visit their site for contact information: www.clayandglass.on.ca/conf.htm
The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery in Waterloo: www.canadianclayandglass.ca
Check out the Pottery directory: www.PotterySites.biz
Suppliers
Greenbarn
Pottery Supply: www.greenbarn.com
The Mad Potter: www.themadpotter.ca
Online
Clay mecca: www.digitalfire.com/plainsman
Ceramics Canada, Calgary: www.ceramicscanada.net
Associations
The Crafts Association of BC: www.cabc.net
The Nanaimo Tozan Kiln Site: www.tozan.bc.ca
Th Canadian Crafts Federation: www.canadiancraftsfederation.ca
The Alliance for the arts: www.allianceforarts.com
Canadian Culture: www.culture.ca