Featured Artists
We’re proud to represent the work of Canadian ceramic artists, including both established names and up-and-coming artists.
Susan Card
Card’s ceramic pieces are formed and sculpted, then painted in a watercolour style with glazes and underglazes. Her work acknowledges the tradition of floral symbolism in art that signifies feminine beauty, fertility, and the natural and philosophical worlds, and elevates the everyday to the contemplative.
Célia Brandão
Brandão is interested in balancing form and function and imbues her organic forms with unaffected simplicity.
Wayne Cardinalli
Cardinalli has been a full-time potter since 1969 when he graduated from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art with an M.F.A. Degree in Ceramics. His work has been featured in various publications, including Ceramics Monthly Magazine.
Shu-Chen Cheng
“From Earth to Heaven”
Using clay and glazes, Cheng creates surfaces and textures on vessels that reflect cosmic images.
Yumiko Katsuya
Katsuya is fascinated with the natural patterns, mysterious colours, and sense of translucent depth in crystalline glazes. She has a passion for creating functional art, particularly teapots, vases, dishes and Japanese Tea Ceremony utensils.
Gabrielle Kauffman
Kauffman specializes in functional wheel-thrown stoneware. She works with overlapping glazes and wax resist to achieve richly coloured, soothing, and unpredictable results
Margie Kelk
Kelk's artistic practice reflects contemporary concerns about cultural history and politics. She takes an exploratory and experimental approach to reconstructing visual fragments of ideas through diverse media.
Irit Lepkin
Lepkin engages in an artistic duet with her earthenware pieces, which are meant to accentuate mixed messages. The juxtaposition of soft clay with a metaphorical harshness of reality underscores what she terms “the inescapable psychological condition of modernity.”
Eiko Maeda
Maeda works in nerikomi, a traditional Japanese hand-building technique that involves stacking, slicing, and re-forming coloured clay to form repeating patterns.
Dale Mark
Mark is known for his slip-decorated, reduction-fired, functional pieces. He enjoys the translucency of porcelain, the quality of glazes, and the feel of the clay when throwing.
Lesley McInally
“Landscape, seascape, weather and it’s effects have always had an enormous influence on my work.”
McInally uses historical printmaking techniques, layering ceramic pigments and hand-coloured porcelain engobes to create complex textural surfaces that reveal hidden bursts of colour on soft, rounded forms, like weathered boulders.
Heidi McKenzie
McKenzie maintains both sculpture and functional-ware studio practices. Her work engages issues of identity and belonging.
Chris Sora
Sora follows his curiosity about his Japanese heritage through pottery. Functional work is his primary medium of expression, but he also produces wearable and sculptural pieces. He specializes in wood fired items for the Japanese Tea Ceremony.
Robert Tetu
Tetu produces functional pottery of uncompromising craftsmanship and quality in stoneware and fine porcelain, and is renowned for his Shino glaze.