From the beginning of my fascination with clay, I’ve experimented with making different forms and ways to decorate them. Clay slip, left over from the throwing process, applied to a surface could make an interesting design. Scratching through a slip into a different coloured surface (called sgraffito) was another method. I was also interested in large forms and how they could be combined. I was experimenting with every technique I could find.
In May of 1976, I held my first gallery exhibition at Harvest House Gallery in Edmonton, where I showed pottery, sculpture and wall murals, alongside the work of weaver Maureen Hemingway.
The sculpture and wall pieces shown at Harvest House appear in the ‘sculpture’ and ‘wall art’ modules.
canister set from 1st exhibition, May,1976 at Harvest House Gallery Edmonton, glazed iron-rich stoneware, ∆10.
coffee set, server, 27 cm h, 1976, glazed stoneware, brushed design, fired to ∆10.
hanging planter, 26 cm h, 1976, leather hangers, glazed stoneware, ∆10.
goblet set, from 1st exhibition, May,1976 at Harvest House gallery, Edmonton, iron-rich stoneware, ∆10.
horse stein, 1976, iron-rich stoneware, 15 cm h, wax-resist horse over iron-red glaze, ∆10.
chess set, 1976, thrown clay, slab board, stoneware, brown and white glaze, ∆10.
planter, 1976, stoneware, 30 cm h, white glaze centre, ∆10.
large floor vase, 54 cm h, 1977, glazed stoneware with slip decoration, fired to ∆10.
large lamp base, 51 cm h, 1976, brushed kaolin slip, etched design, iron rich stoneware, no glaze, ∆10.
faceted canister, 1977, iron-rich stoneware, 25 cm h, white glaze, ∆10.
large planter, 1978, iron-rich stoneware, 39 cm h, applied slip and scratches, ∆10.
closed-form teapot, 1978, iron-rich stoneware, 18 cm h, thrown on side, brown glaze, ∆10.
bottle vase, 1978, stoneware, 29 cm h, slip and sgraffito over oxide, ∆10.
large bowl, 39 cm w, 1976, glazed stoneware, brushed oxide, fired to ∆10.
pedestal planter, 63 cm h, 1976, thrown in two pieces, joined, stoneware, white glaze, ∆ 10.
large lamp base, 47 cm h, 1977, stoneware glazed over slip design, fired to ∆10.
large lamp base, 55 cm h, 1977, stoneware with applied slip design, glazed and fired to ∆10.
planter with tree design, 33 cm h, 1976, stoneware with sgraffito through glaze ∆ 10.
large bowl, 47 cm d, 1976, stoneware, brushed oxides over glaze, fired to ∆ 10.
wide vase, 26 cm h, 1976, stoneware, iron oxide design, fired to ∆10.
