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I grew up and took my first ceramics lessons in Johannesburg, South Africa; I still have a couple of those pots! I graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand, studying English, fine art and art history.
After living in England, I eventually settled in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Ann Arbor is home to a unique ceramics studio, the cooperatively run Potters Guild that's been going since 1949. The Guild offered an opportunity to resume working with clay, through several years of classes. A two year internship followed, after which I was elected to full Guild membership.
My work is entirely built by hand, bypassing the traditional potter's wheel. This gives it a solid, sculptural quality, with more angles and surface texture than wheel-thrown pieces.
Photographs by Jeri Hollister & Joel Goldberg
Clay comes from the ground. The forms, surfaces and colors of these sculptural works express their origin through an earth-based aesthetic. That can mean seemingly-random planes and angles, constantly-varying raw surface textures, and natural color combinations one might observe in a savanna or under the ocean.
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Visiting Australia's Great Barrier Reef inspired me to capture in clay some of the shapes and colors of that extraordinary underwater world. The result is an ongoing series of fish-motif pieces, both decorative and functional. I use an assortment of glazes to capture the play of underwater light on objects of different shapes and colors, viewed at different depths.
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I grew up and received my first ceramics training in Johannesburg, South Africa. Each year I create a limited number of African-inspired masks that draw on the cultural and design influences of my youth. Raku firing gives them the smoky appearance of masks used in tribal ceremonies.
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