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First Name | Anita & Neil |
Last Name | Lawrence |
Nickname | islandclayworks.com |
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My Ceramics
In the studio I like to do | Handbuilding, Throwing on the Wheel, Sculpting, Everything to do with Ceramics |
Pottery Wheel | Brent, Pacifica and Shimpo |
Clay body | Stoneware, Porcelain |
Clay Brand | P-300, Bmix cone 5 |
Kiln Type | Electric Kiln |
Kiln Atmosphere | Oxidation Atmosphere |
Temperature | 2167 |
Glaze | We make our own glazes using a celedon type green, clear and white. Neil uses a terra sigilatta applied with an air brush and I use underglazes and underglaze transfers as well as some handpainting and mishima process for fine lines. |
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About Me
Introduction | Anita and Neil are a husband and wife pottery team based out of Gold River, B.C. Canada.. We work in our studio together but on separate work, the studio/ gallery is called Island Clayworks. We work in mid range stoneware and porcelain. Neil’s work is mainly Sgraffito design in salmon and wildlife images. Anita works with underglazes, transfers and sgraffito, mishima and handpainted designs. More of our story and inspiration can be read at http://www.islandclayworks.com Anita also has an Etsy page at http://www.etsy.com/shop/anitalawrencepottery
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What I Love about Ceramics | Ceramics is such a tactile and contemplative medium. It is very easy to get lost in a day creating from slippery clay or building with leather hard clay slabs. Ceramics offers an infinite world of possibilities and it never ceases to amaze me how we can have such diversity in this medium amongst potters and ceramic artists. |
How I started with ceramics | I first began in clay when I was in high school, the only student with one wheel in the corner of a noisy hydro room. But I was hooked, and decided to go to art school to learn more and that is where Neil and I met. The visual arts program offered in our diploma was enough to get us started with technique and form. Many years later, a few moves and career shifts we own and operate our own studio and gallery and have been monstly self tought. |
What inspires me | We both love nature and wildlife, this is very prominent in Neil’s work. He documents with photography, another medium he is very gifted with. These photo’s help him with close ups of feathers, water, leaves, species and placement. My works revolves around color contrast, design and various finishing techniques for oxidation. I am inspired by design and ultimately the use of a piece. My finishing is always a process of layering, scratching the surface, color inlay and transfers. |
What I'm working on at the moment | Neil is working on a series of pots that are going to three fishing resorts for the summer of 2021. His work fits in well with what they are promoting and its nice to work on large commission. I am concentrating of social media and sales. My pottery work currently is porcelain with color and transfers in functional stoneware. |
My Artist Statement | Neil and Anita Lawrence have been collectively making pottery for over 25 years. They have made Gold River their home on Vancouver Island and produce functional and decorative wares from their studio at Island Clayworks. Neil works primarily with Terra Sigillata’s and engobes to create a canvas that he can carve imagery into. These images have been strongly influenced by the beauty of the islands’ rugged coastlines and the majestic wildlife as well as the history and art of the first nations. Neil considers each ceramic piece as a time capsule in a sense, capturing a glimpse of this period of time he has been on the island and perhaps in a historical sense, documenting the landscape and wildlife of this area. |
My CV | Anita Lawrence CV http://www.islandclayworks.com Education 2016 BFA – General Fine Arts, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, B.C. Teaching Appointments 2013/14 School District 84, Guest Artist, secondary Solo Exhibitions Group Exhibitions 2016 ECUAD Grad Show – Emily Carr, Vancouver, B.C. Anita Lawrence 2 Collections 2010 – 2020 Steven Ogden, Vancouver, B.C. Collaborative Projects 2011 Arts Week, School District 84, Tile Wall Mural Professional Experience 2005 – 2007 Hudson’s Bay Company, consignee in Table Ware Dept., Victoria and Nanaimo Publications Lawrence, Anita “Artists of Nootka Sound”, Nootka Sounder, Courtenay, B.C. P.19, Current Summer Editions since 2005 |
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