Details

First Name

Angeline

Last Name

Lee

Nickname

Familee

My Ceramics

In the studio I like to do

Handbuilding, Throwing on the Wheel, Sculpting

Pottery Wheel

Shimpo whisper

Clay body

Stoneware, Porcelain

Clay Brand

Plainsman

Kiln Type

Electric Kiln

Kiln Atmosphere

Oxidation Atmosphere

Temperature

∆6

Glaze

I mostly use commercial ready-made glazes because my space is small and my energy is precious. I have amaco, spectrum, mayco, and I have added ash to glass to see what happens. Use wadding or cookies! Ash and glass is runny and will ruin kiln shelves! I added eggshells to my clay and must have added too much because the pot completly crumbled. My daughter told me I gave my post osteoporosis. lol.

 

You can buy my work from

Angelineleepottery@gmail.com or message me on instagram @workinprogresspotteryandart

About Me

Introduction

Part-time Potter. Part-time Artist. Full-time Wife. Mom of 5. Past homeschooler. Cancer survivor #checkyourlumps . #mylifeisasoapopera

What I Love about Ceramics

I love the textures, the sounds, the way I don’t notice anything except what I am working on. I love how I can manipulate a ball of gooey mud into something useful, colourful, fanciful. Add some heat and you have a completely different structure than you had before. And it can last forever. Who knows, maybe a piece you made in 2022 inspires someone to make something in the year 3032?

How I started with ceramics

I was a stay home mom of 2. I took a pottery class with the lady who was my grade 4 teacher and I LOVED it! I was glued like glaze on clay after the first class!  Thanks Alice! ( Mrs P.) She has since passed away and I sure miss her encouragement!

 

What inspires me

A brief list of what inspires me:

Leaves. Trees. Clouds. Bodies of water. Fire pits in my back yard. Gardens and plants. Other nature. Great conversations. Great art. Zentangles, neurographic art. Great artists of the past and present.  Holding someone elses pot in my hands. History. The Bible. My husband. My kids. Pets. Teaching and learning with others. Sharing other people’s and my passions with others. Tools of the trade. It doesn’t matter what trade, the tools just fascinate me.

What I'm working on at the moment

Mostly I have been making trays and platters. Everything looks better on a tray. Mushrooms, mini houses, worm sticks for garden pots, plant pots. Always mugs. Whatever seems to inspire me in the moment. I am a one-off maker. No two pieces will ever be the same because I am not the same now as I was when I made the last piece because I learn something from everything I do, which is why I love the name Work in Progress Pottery and Art. But it’s too long and I will probably just use my name for my business because it is easier to find.

My Artist Statement

I believe art, as well as life, is always a work in progress. My life will not be the same tomorrow as it is today, so what I make today reflects the progress of life and learning. I consider myself to be an experimental artist, meaning I use the “mess around and find out method”. I have been making pottery for over 25 years and more devotedly for the last 2.

My CV

Instructor: Spruce Grove Art Gallery 2018-2019

Instructor- homeschool classes for WEE Homeschool Group in Evansburg, Alberta 2009-2012

Instructor – Clay parties, Have Clay, will travel. 2017-2019, current