work in metal and clay
Dear Alberta: The Mountains Are Calling
The Phase Change* series is inspired by the story of water and ice, our changing climate, and its impacts on life, and loss. Using...
Who Will See The Snow?
Phase Change Collection. The form of this stoneware vessel describes a fragile situation: poised over a tiny foot, the mountainous body of...
Icefield #2
Phase Change Series: Wide open stoneware landscape vessel. Depicting glacial ice, with black layers of debris and dust swept along on its...
Sunshine Bowl #1
Phase Change Series: This vessel holds a wide open snowy landscape, where snows melt away to reveal a favourite hidden lake in the summer...
Icefield #1
Phase Change Series: Alpine landscape vessel, with deeply textured and detailed surfaces. I worked back and forth with photography as I...
A Slow Descent
Phase Change Series: It’s hard to imagine that glaciers flow…snow that has been compressed over eons, deep under new snows above, just...
Three (Of A Kind)
Fenestrations Series. Free-standing porcelain sculpture, made intuitively by working with 'three' as muse: three disruptions carved into...
Blue One
Blue porcelain sculptural form. Inspired by the wobble and flow within a falling water drop. Flowing rounded form has carved details on all...
She #2 (A Rib Going Spare)
Fenestrations Series. Sculptural figurative form. This piece evolved as a response to making another figurative piece (She #1), abstracting...
Foothills
Fenestrations Series. Ripples in the landscape, growing larger and more rugged as I travel west towards the Rocky Mountains. In winter, the...
Growth: When Planting a Seed Becomes a Radical Affirmation of Life
Started as I listened to the news—another invasion, people forced to flee from their homes. I spent a lot of my child-hood on my...
From The Heart
Fenestrations Series. Abstracted, free-standing sculptural form, echoing sinuous lines of cardiac chambers and valves, thinking about blood...
Lily #1
Floribunda Series: Lily study. Available as a pendant, or much larger wall-mounted work. Pendant is sterling silver (925) with 14k rose...
Turbulence #1
Shield Series: abstract chasing study, a design that I am iterating at different scales and complexities, exploring line, form, scale, and...
Plum Blossom #1
Floribunda Series: Plum blossom study. Available as a pendant, or much larger wall-mounted work. Pendant is sterling silver (925) with 14k...
In Dreams
Installation of seventeen equine studies. My equine hero is In Dreams (at left), the foal (at right) is Looking Back: a young horse...
Run
Portrait study. A modern artifact, separated from any context of being installed in a grand or ceremonial location. Intended to be...
Concrete & Grafitti
Inspired by brutalist architecture and the much-loved graffiti stair-well at Alberta University of the Arts. This piece continues to...
The Cracks Are How The Dark Gets Out
Finished in January 2017, this vessel was put aside to dry very slowly, as usual; the vessel was finally decorated and high-fired in 2020...
Ebb, Then Flow.
A form that invites introspection, it is about picking ourselves up, and starting again: feeling that pressure to fold inwards, to just...
Towards Grace, A Struggle.
Towards Grace is about engaging with struggle: after the ferocity of cancer treatment, it’s all questions—why do I live here, what is my...
Molten #1 Archean Spring
“I have a gift for order and a taste for chaos.” – Leigh Bardugo Developing textures in clay opens my imagination up to the life of the...
A Part From The Infinite Series
An exploration of the 2D written symbol for infinity, as a 3D sculptural ceramic form. Moving around the imagined form in my mind became a...
Watermelon Glacier: Alpine Flower Trough For No Flowers.
Designed in response to research into deglaciation in Western Canada, and the impacts on landscape of man-made climate change. The colours...
Plum Blossom Screen
Wall-mounted artwork, can also be installed as a room divider (in temporary white frame). Reverse has a flowing silhouette of the plum-tree...
Fire In The Belly
Fire In The Belly Collaborative project: a celebration of the process of making, and the importance of friends, family, and community to a...
Return
Public art project. Collaborative sculpture: project designed by Cory Barkman, constructed by Jeff de Boer and Cory Barkman. Tree...