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Wild textures and primal colours: new ceramics on show in Calgary

  On show at BEX Vintage and Mr Mansfield Vintage in downtown Calgary. I’m honoured to be sharing their art wall with Lisa Brawn’s stunning woodcuts this May--and you can find more work from local artists amongst the mid-century modern and vintage goods. It’s always fun to walk into a shop and find that you covet lots of their stuff…it’s making me feel very much at home! BEX Vintage & Mr Mansfield Vintage 1124 10 Ave SW, Calgary, Alberta, CANADA The ‘Archean Spring’ group of vessels and vases is the result of everything, everywhere seeping in as I added glaze colours to a group of hefty porcelain forms, weaving it around their intense textures. I was capturing a feeling that I, or maybe the rest of the world, might just melt or explode…listening to the news, waiting for spring.  The colours are molten, and layered—like a young Earth, back when the oceans were far more green, less blue. A period when the chemistry of colour changed through fluctuating oxygen levels, aster...