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While our offices and showroom are closed because of Covid-19 we have been busy adding some new work to our ceramic collection. When we reopen you will see these great pieces on display. Please remember to stay safe, stay creative, and call us if you need anything. We are here to answer your questions, take your orders, or just say hello. Call us at 1-800-431-6067 M-F 8:30-5:00 or go online anytime! We are shipping orders every day!

The Bailey Collection Keeps Growing!

Edwin and Mary Scheier

This plattter by a legendary ceramic couple is a great example of the work the Scheiers created together. Mary threw lovely thin pottery and Edwin's illustrative imagery decorated the surfaces.

Mystery Pot #9 from the Bailey Collection of Contemporary Ceramics was a Scheier bowl more reflective of Mary Scheier's distinctive syle. See that bowl and read more about the Scheiers' long, full lives in our Mystery Pot reveal from August 13, 2013.

Debra Olivia

"My work is informed by Japanese art and craft traditions, including contemporary and traditional textiles, basketry, costume and Japanese prints. I have an affinity for the simplicity, serenity and precision craftsmanship I find in the Asian aesthetic. I am particularly interested in the armor and implements of the Samurai warrior. These garments are an amalgamation of craft traditions where I find endless inspiration for form, color, pattern and texture. It is my intention to create objects that share the same spirit, temperament and timelessness."

Masa Sasaki

“We live in the world where we are surrounded by machine made and mass-produced goods today. I feel, as a contemporary craftsman, the need to validate the value of handmade items by making things that could not be easily duplicated and unique to my own artistic perspective. For me it is not enough that a final piece be essentially functional and pleasant, it must also be lasting in its desirability for use. Long after I have ceased to be productive the pieces that I accomplish today should still be enjoyed, appreciated, and used."

Sergei Isupov

“I am a student of the universe and a participant in the harmonic chaos of contrasts and opposites: dark – light; male – female; good – evil. Working instinctually and using my observations, I create a new, intimate universe that reveals the relationships, connections and contradictions as I perceive them. I find clay to be the most versatile material and it is well suited to the expression of my ideas. I consider my sculptures to be a canvas for my paintings. All the plastic, graphic and painting elements of a piece function as complementary parts of the work.”

Left: Eiko Maeda

"I devote my life to my work, through which I strive to express the elegance, feminine beauty, delicacy and modesty of Japanese culture. I have been exploring a new style of ceramics technique, called nerikomi. I had the opportunity to attend a nerikomi ceramics workshop taught by Eiji Murofushi, one of the pioneers in the field of nerikomi ceramics in 2013 in Fuji, Japan. I was immediately attracted and started to practice nerikomi in Canada where the technique is hardly known. I hope to generate public interest in nerikomi in Canada and to share the beauty of Japanese ceramics."

Right: Lydia Johnson

Lydia Johnson began making functional pots out of double-sided, patterned clay slabs. Johnson says the pattern and color in her work “are the essence of the thing; an indispensable quality to the object’s existence and power.” The patterns she develops derive from a conglomerate of historical references, visual observation, and active imagination. Johnson describes her all-over pattern as creating an “engaging physical and visual illusion between user and object.”

David Crane

"My artistic vocabulary is nourished by a diverse range of historic and contemporary art and ceramics sources. These many influences and interests are assimilated with my personal artistic perspective and inclinations. The goal is to create unique, well-conceived individual ceramic objects. The ideal is to create ceramic works with qualities that will enrich the viewer’s life.

At its most basic, I make work that 'feels right' to me at a given moment. It is a quest that is continuously motivating, sustaining and one that is an ongoing challenge after many years working in clay."

Tatsuzo Shimaoka

Shimaoka Tatsuzo was the foremost pupil of Hamada Shoji (1894-1978) until his death in 2007. He was regarded as Japan's leading folk craft potter. Shimaoka's signature style, known as "Jomon-zogan" in Japanese, combines cord-impressed decoration and a white-slip inlay technique. Shimaoka used of a variety of glazes to enhance the richness of his folk style tableware. He also successfully developed a Western-influenced salt glaze technique that Hamada had first introduced. For his mastery of the Jomon technique of rope-impressed stoneware, he was named a Living National Treasure in 1996. He was also an influential teacher of a new generation of ceramists.

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