Tag: Pottery

Ceramics with grace & whimsy

I have a soft spot for ceramics, especially if they’re unorthodox. Kingston potter Marney McDiarmid perfectly fills the order with her translucent, fragile porcelain bowls. I think perhaps I’m so attracted to delicate, edgy ceramics because my mother’s generation was so into heavy, ugly quasi-Victorian dreck.

Eunice Luk: A Lot About the Sea

Toronto artist Eunice Luk does ceramics and illustration and is also the founder of Fantasy Camp Books, an independent publisher of artist books and zines.  We took a quick look at her work in a previous post, but it’s worth a closer exploration. (Above: Sea Butler) -From WNDW, […]

Gritty, Etched Ceramics Taking Hold

Ceramic Artist Shane Norrie is hot. His hand-thrown etched ceramic work is everywhere – on decor TV, in fall design magazines and on general exhibit. It’s part of a current focus on edgy pottery, led internationally by designers such as Jaime Hayon of Spain and Studio Job of […]