Bernadette “Bernie” DeLallo
Bernadette “Bernie” DeLallo
I have been involved with pottery since the early 1990’s with an emphasis on wheel thrown pieces. Currently I am focusing on Sgraffito. Images from nature are my inspiration and my one of a kind pieces are not only decorative but functional and suitable for the table.
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Contact: 541-936-4034
Carole Hayne
Carole Hayne
Firesong Ceramics
I was born in Southern Oregon when trees covered most of the land. Trees have provided the inspiration for most of my artwork whether it was oil paints, watercolors, or pen and ink drawings. Now they inform my pottery. Now and then, one can see a touch of geometric precision in a series of pieces. influenced by my study of physics and mathematics. The math and science in my background has helped in glaze formulation.
My future husband introduced me to pottery in 1990. Soon I was developing glazes to set off his pottery and dabbling in creating my own artistic pieces. Starting in 2006, I began showing and selling my own creations. I introduce a new collection every several years. My first successful line was the Spring Reeds which feature sprigged grasses. This morphed into a line of modern geometric shapes that stood cubes on a vertex to make a vase. A workshop last fall turned the cubes back on a side and into lidded boxes with inlaid patterns. My latest series is the Madrone grove collection featuring the negative space between Madrone tree trunks.
My shop on Etsy is called Firesong Pottery.
My website and online store: firesongpottery.com
My email: carole@firesongpottery.com
I am also part of the OPA’s Showcase Show and Sale in Portland the last week in April.
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Linda Heisserman
Linda Heisserman
I love “throwing” on the wheel. It is meditative for me….All my pieces start out on the wheel. When they have dried some, I trim them and set them aside for the next step.
I hand carve each piece using a single edged razor blade and dental tools. The razor blades give me a much more sweeping carve then a regular clay carving tool. I start carving when the piece is leather hard. I have to carve or perforate the piece at this stage so as not to have create cracks. I continue to shape as the piece dries. In the end, I use a green scrubby to smooth off the sharp edges. For me, each piece seems like a miniature sculpture. I like how the light plays off the surface whether it is glazed or not.
The pieces are then placed in the bisque kiln and fired until they are the hardness of a red clay pot used for flowers. In this stage, the piece is porous enough to absorb the liquid glaze and solid enough to not melt when dipped into the liquid glaze.
The piece is then put into a gas reduction kiln along with about 80 other pieces, some big some small. The kiln is fired to 2300 degrees over a fourteen hour period. It is then allowed to cool for another fourteen hours. The pieces which emerge from the kiln have gone through a lot of structural and chemical changes. They are a joy to make, hold and use.
Contact:
Email | Phone: 541-419-1500
Jennifer Hill
Jennifer Hill
Jennifer Hill’s Ceramics
Jennifer Hill is a studio artist and traveling workshop instructor based in Klamath Falls, Oregon. She has called several interesting places home but was most artistically influenced living on The Garden Isle of Kauai. University studies led to teaching in colleges and art centers across the country for over 20 years and exhibiting nationally and internationally.
Jennifer attended art residencies in places as diverse as Missoula, Montana and Rome, Italy, and served as an Art in Public Places panelist via the City of Austin. In Oregon she has taught workshops statewide including Mt. Hood Community College and Sitka Center for Art & Ecology on the Oregon Coast. Jennifer regularly shows new artwork in galleries, via her website, and seasonal venues.Interested in a workshop? Please be in touch.
Contact:
Website | Instagram | EMAIL: jenniferamhill@yahoo.com | Phone: 214-399-6684
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Frank Jacques
Frank Jacques
Lucky Pots
Clay is this magically engaging vehicle for utility and expression. I love its democracy. I love that it can be a brick or a urinal or a teacup.
I grew up in the Bay Area and cut my artistic teeth at Humboldt State University (BA Zoology, 1985), during the Funk-Art movement. I took inspiration from Robert Arneson, Lou Marak, Richard Shaw, and Patti Warashina (who was one of my teachers during my MFA program at the University of Washington in 1997). And it shows.
I like clay for its cheeky possibilities and narrative potential but, you know, I also really appreciate an honest pot. I am constantly exploring that intersection. I want people to think my pots are funny or cool too but I also want people to know they are well-made and coming from a place of experience and craft. I am pretty serious about being light.
I am so lucky to live on a needy chunk of beautiful land in Talent, Oregon with my partner, an overgrown pasture, and a curious menagerie of loveable creatures furred and feathered. When I’m not in my studio or repairing kilns, I am usually fixing or scooping something on our property, talking about politics with anyone who will listen, or trail running with my border collie Roo.
Contact:
Email | Phone: 406-577-6040
Lily Myers Kaplan
Lily Myers Kaplan
I’ve been a maker all my life, and am a recent convert to ceramic artistry. I use the slow-craft of hand-building clay into organically shaped rustic pottery. I honor nature in my work by imprinting leaves and grasses and often decorate vessels with spirals—the essential force of all life. Inspired by motifs of Native and Meso-Americans, I re-interpret these symbols in unique patterns, choosing glazes that reflect flora and fauna of our region.
Contact:
Phone: 510-390-1098
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Lindy Kehoe
Catherine McElroy
Catherine G. McElroy
Catherine G. McElroy loves to laugh & create art almost everyday. She has been a nationally selling silversmith, a whimsical watercolorist, a fluid art landscape painter, an enamelist making jewelry and is presently designing and making ceramic tiles for her mosaic hex signs and tabletops. For the past 15 years she and her partner Mo have been traveling the west coast participating in fine art festivals where you may have met them. They live on the edge of nowhere in Etna, CA. If you have been to Etna, you know that nowhere is just over the hill.
Contact:
Email: Cathy@catherinemcelroy.com
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Robert J Musolf
Robert J Musolf
Pottery on Edge
Robert J. Musolf is a potter specializing in hand–built pottery and ceramics. His work embodies the Japanese philosophy of wabi- sabi, celebrating the beauty of imperfection and transience. Drawing on past experience such as teaching faux finish techniques at the Otis School of Art and design in Los Angeles, working on restoration projects at the Getty Museum, and other historical sites in Los Angeles, he brings a wealth of knowledge and creativity to his craft. Inspired by the contemporary art scene and world travels, he employs a variety of techniques, from sculptural hand–building to experimental glazing. The result is a collection of unusual compositions inviting viewers to appreciate the unique beauty found in the fleeting and the flawed.
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