Chasing Beauty
My work is saturated with deep, intense and multilayered colour. My core aim is to produce pottery that conveys a feeling of warmth, pleasure, and visual clarity. Although, I use a complex and technically rigourous glazing process, I seek simplicity in the finished product. My work is functional, yet a strongly sculptural sense of form runs through it.
Key artistic influences in my life include: Sung Dynasty pottery; Danish Modern; the British potter Lucy Rie; my mother - printmaker Sharon Merkur; and my teacher - sculptor Leonhard Oesterle. Hopefully you can see their energy, restraint and elegance shine through in my pots.
My Toronto studio is one block from the Wychwood Art Barns and two blocks from the St. Clair West subway station.
Drop in – the gallery is open most afternoons, or call to make an appointment. I’d love to show you around.