Gloucester Pottery School 'galerie Dust Evans Gallery'
NOW SHOWING:
Chandler Swain February 16th 2010 - April 5th 2010
PAST EXHIBITIONS:
Raymond Warren
Cynthia O'Brien Emergence (Playing with Science)
Jim Thompson
Multi-fired sculptural work by Paula Murray
Biography:
I am currently turning to a lifelong interest in the human form. I did lots of life drawing early on and still love interpreting the human figure through drawing ( on pots and on paper). The series of Garden Queens shown in the Garden Art Exhibition at Lafreniere and Pai Gallery Ottawa in May 2009 and the series of 10 of these Garden Queens commissioned by Prime Gallery for a show The Royal Botanical Gardens for September 2009 in Hamilton have given me much practice in supersizing my pots into sculptures and in coming out of the closet with making faces and heads. . Last years "paintings in the form of pots", one of which was purchased by the Canada Council Art Bank, and one that is in this years OCC Masterworks East Exhibition are the foundational clay "drawing /paintings" for the sculptures that I am now working on. This fall the Canada Council Art Bank also bought my figurative piece Jane Jacobs which has further inspired me to continue interpreting the figure as an extention of my clay work as a potter.
Go to "Workshops" for Chandler Swain's Workshop April 11th.