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Artists

Denise Joyal

Denise’s soda-fired vessels represent light moving through time. Inlaid patterns ground this celestial concept and seek to create an intimate meditation of function and philosophy.

Tameria Martinez

 

Tamiera owns The Frederick Clay Studio, which serves as a hub for local ceramic artists, Tammy’s voluptuous, curved porcelain vases are enhanced with highly fluxed glazes to create sensual, multi-hued surfaces.

Joyce Michaud

 

Joyce leads the Hood College Ceramics program. In exhibition settings, her figurative wood and soda-fired porcelain vessels suggest personal interactions.

Lisa York

Lisa’s soda-fired vessels transcend function. Her aesthetic focuses on building personal relationships by providing memorable experiences via daily artistic encounters.

J. Christopher Landers

Chris’s liquid-industrial ware suggests a factory furnace. His utilitarian forms melt and convey a gentleness that encourages practical engagement and an invitation to linger.

Debbie and Scott Williamson

 

At Butterfly Bend Pottery, Scott and Debbie host annual, communal firings of their massive anagama kiln. Debbie’s literary and polished forms have surfaces suggestive of character studies waiting to be written. Scott’s rugged and unpredictable fire-and-ash aesthetic recalls hearth-warmed caves and heavy wooden tables.

Tim Sherman

 

Tim’s interactive glazes and slips, intensive temperature, and ash and soda-fluxed surfaces create dramatic effects on smooth stoneware and porcelain clay vessels.

Carolanne Currier

Carolanne’s organic forms suggest metamorphic forces. Sensual flames travel across geology only to be shaped by shell waddings that act as a moment of photography, a fossil deposit caught in a kiln.

Jacklyn Scott

 

Jackie’s work abounds in transitions. Stolid forms feature contrasting fields of geometry and rivers of running glaze. More figural sister forms contrast color fields with igneous runs of shadow.

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