LARGE GLAZED BOWL WITH SLIP-TRAILED PORCELAIN (#4)
porcelaneous stoneware
3 in. tall x 12 in. diameter
$140

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NERIKOMI - LAMINATED BOWL (#10)
hand built, clay
3 in. tall x 7 in. diameter
$110

NERIKOMI - SMALL STRIPED BOWL (#8)
hand built, clay
1.5 in. tall x 4.5 in. diameter
$48

NERIKOMI - SMALL BOWL TEAL AND BROWN (#9)
hand built, clay
1.5 in. tall x 4.5 in. diameter
$48

#2 above is shown as well...

IN THE WINTER WOODS (detail)
ceramic construction of coloured porcelain in wooden shadow box frame
outside framed dimensions: 10 in. tall x 16.5 in. x 4 in. deep
$800

Margaret Ann Capper Galbraith has been creating and exhibiting her work since graduating from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics, 1977. Her education was further enhanced by a number of scholarships that enabled her to participate in conferences and study tours in Copenhagen, Denmark, Vienna, Austria and the Banff School of Fine Arts for three summers. She also participated in a European Pottery Tour in England, Spain and Italy.

The excellence of Margaret Ann's work has been recognized by the New Brunswick Arts Board with the provision of a Creation Grant. She has received Best Product Award in the Atlantic Craft Trade Show and was endorsed by the (former) New Brunswick Department of Commerce and Development's Product Management Development Program. Margaret Ann is a juried member of the New Brunswick Craft Council and the Nova Scotia Designer Crafts Council. She is a former Department Head (Pottery) at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design. She has exhibited regularly in group and solo exhibitions in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, including a 1978 exhibition at Gallery 78 featuring Peter Gross, Lucy Fellows and Margaret Ann. She resides in Sackville, NB.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My work investigates the possibility of colour and translucency in liquid porcelain. Originally an industrial material, I became interested in exploring slip-cast porcelain in the studio after a studio tour in Scandinavia in 1983. This trip included a course in thermal walled mold making at the Art College in Copenhagen.

More recently, the formation of sedimentary rock led to discovering how to represent layers of colour using metallic oxides directly in the porcelain material. This rapid geological process is achieved when the clay is in liquid form and then sets up on plaster. Many of these pieces are unglazed, but the satin finish is durable and can be scoured with any abrasive.

Finally, newer work is becoming impossibly thin, and uses fine lines of colour. All pieces are hand built or cast in studio molds.