Maeva Collins - Featured Artist at The Potters Place

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Tuesday, July 8th, 2014
10:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Maeva Collins is the feature artist at the Potters Place for the month of July. She is known for her beautiful thrown and altered vessels. She uses earthly elements in her firing and in her finished work. Her work is both pit fired and wood fired resulting in unique vessels - nature never leaves the same mark twice.

Maeva's work and firing method has been included in a newly published book �Pit Firing Ceramics, Modern Methods and Ancient Techniques� by author Dawn Whitehand of Australia. Her work will be exhibited in July at an international exhibition and book launch at the Ballarat Art Gallery in Australia.

The pit fired vessels have no glaze. The pieces are burnished and fired in a pit surrounded by various organic material. They vary in size, most are lidded and the larger ones have driftwood added.

The wood fired pieces are fired for 30 to 35 hours requiring the kiln to be stoked every five to tens minutes and reaches a temperature of 2380 degrees F. Each piece is marked by the ash and flame with results unattainable by any other firing method resulting in an array of colours; blue, burgundy, brown, yellow, orange with green and golden natural ash glaze.

The Potter's Place is at 180B Fifth St. on the corner of Fifth and Cliffe in the Courtyard, in the cultural heart of downtown Courtenay.

Open Mondays to Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Parking is available at the Rear of the building along the fence.