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about the artist
As my parents can attest to, I've been playing with clay since childhood. After spending many years as a part-time ceramic artist, I left the "paycheck world" at the end of 2002 and have devoted myself full time to clay ever since.
I make functional pottery, using both the potter's wheel and handbuilding techniques. I strive for grace and elegance, while maintaining a strong focus on function. I want people to use my pieces in their daily lives - whether it is a mug they reach for in the morning or a soap dish sitting on their bathroom counter. I hope that in some small way my work makes its owners smile, and appreciate the beauty and simplicity of handmade work.
I use stoneware and porcelain clays, fired to approximately 2350 degrees F, in gas, and occasionally wood, kilns. Some work is fired in kilns where salt or soda ash is added, which gives the work a different patina. All work, unless otherwise noted, is food and dishwasher safe. My dinnerware plates are relatively flat and not more than 11-1/2" diameter, so they fit well into most dishwashers and cabinets.
Recently, I have been focused on texture and pattern, using both clay surface manipulation and glaze application. Some of the patterns are inspired by sand patterns on the beach and in riverbeds, while others by simple geometry. Some are also inspired by my mother's work in textiles.
Although I have no university art training, I've taken workshops and classes at several places, including Haystack Mountain School for Crafts in Deer Isle, ME ( www.haystack.org ), and at Anderson Ranch Art Center in Snowmass Village, CO ( www.andersonranch.org ). I'll be an Artist-in-Residence at Anderson Ranch starting in October, 2005. During the summers, I am the Ceramics Studio Manager at Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill ( www.castlehill.org ) in Truro, MA. I spend the rest of the year high in the mountains outside of Aspen, Colorado. Open space, and the patterns I find in it, is a continuing inspiration for my work.
Please enjoy perusing my website, and feel free to contact me if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions!
Anne
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