Gallery 78 - Yolande Clark, woodfired ceramic artist

Yolande Clark

WE GET ATTACHED
wood fired porcelain with shino glaze
5.5 inches tall x 5 in. wide x 3 in.
$150

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BOWL
wood fired stoneware with shino glaze
4 in. tall x 8 in. diameter
SOLD

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Heaven's on Fire

GOLD VASE
wood fired porcelain with natural ash glaze
7 in. tall x 7.5 in. diameter
SOLD

EARLY MORNING VASE
wood fired porcelain with shino glaze
6.5 in. tall x 5.5 in. diameter
$250

DELTA FIREBOX PIECE
wood fired porcelain with natural ash glaze and gold leaf inlay
6 in. tall x 8 in. diameter
SOLD

FIREBOX VASE (circular)
wood fired porcelain with natural ash glaze and texture
14.5 in. tall x 5.5 in. diameter at widest
SOLD

FIREBOX VASE (angular)
wood fired porcelaneous stoneware with natural ash glaze and texture
11 in. tall x 4 x 5 in.
SOLD

Yolande Clark, Awash

YOLANDE CLARK

CARBON CLOAK (#80)
porcelain
10 day anagama fired using pine and tamarack
shino and natural ash glaze
7.5 in. tall x 5 in. at widest
SOLD

Yolande Clark, Sad Jewel

YOLANDE CLARK

SAD JEWEL (#57)
porcelain
10 day anagama fired using pine and tamarack
shino and natural ash glaze
6.5 in. tall x 5 in. at widest
$180

Yolande Clark, Birthing

YOLANDE CLARK

BIRTHING (#56)
porcelain
10 day anagama fired using pine and tamarack
shino and natural ash glaze
7 in. tall x 5 in. at widest
$210

Yolande Clark, Shino carbon-trap teabowl

Yolande Clark, teabowl

SHINO CARBON-TRAP TEABOWL (2 views)
stoneware with shino glaze
woodfired for 4 days in the bourrigama kiln
3.5 in. tall x 4.75 in. diameter
$75

Yolande Clark, Shino Handprint Cup

Yolande Clark, Shino Handprint CUp

SHINO HANDPRINT CUP (2 views)
porcelaineous stoneware
woodfired for 4 days in the bourrigama kiln
3.75 in. tall x 4 in. diameter
$40

BOWL (2011-10)
grès de Treigny stonewared with natural ash glaze
woodfired in Puycelsi, Southern France
3.5 in. tall x 5.5 in. diameter
$80

Yolande Clark, Firebox Vase with Scar, translucent porcelain

NATURAL ASH FIREBOX VASE WITH SCAR (2 views)
translucent porcelain
woodfired for 4 days in the bourrigama kiln
5.5 in. tall x 5.5 in. diameter
$230

Yolande Clark, Natural Ash Firebox Vase with Scar

Yolande Clark, Buddha Green Flow

BUDDHA - GREEN FLOW

porcelain with shino glaze
5 day bourrigama fired
7 in. tall x 5.5 in. wide at bottom
$180

ARTIST STATEMENT:

Firing clay with wood continues to redefine what work, and love and reality and letting go mean to me. Woodfiring, in the most intoxicating way, is the collision between human effort and the vagaries and gorgeousness of nature. It is a constant adventure and a neverending lesson. I have quite a few brilliant and lofty ideas about art and form. But ultimately, my life is so many layers of words and words and pain and memories and mud and dirt. It feels good to burn that all away, and to be able to find some kind of treasure from the wreckage, some kind of beauty. Every day, I lose my mind, I screw things up, I hurt the people I love. The turning wheel brings me back to myself. Stoking the hot fire on a cool black night is good religion. I love woodfiring, and it also makes me cry.

Yolande Clark, 2012

Yolande Clark was born in Vancouver, and took her first pottery class at age 3. She studied piano and creative writing but fell in love with the extreme process of wood-firing in her mid-twenties, dedicating her life to the art of woodfire after an intense and immersive apprenticeship in fire and clay. Yolande lives with her husband, fellow ceramic artist Lee Horus Clark, and their three young children in rural New Brunswick. There, they fire their 25-foot long Queenstown Anagama which they built together in the summer of 2012.

Yolande has travelled with her work throughout Canada and to the US and Europe and has shown in solo and group exhibitions in Eastern Canada, Toronto, Vancouver, and France. Her pieces are collected internationally, and one of her sculptural works, “Firebox Buddha”, resides in the permanent collection at the Burlington Arts Centre, Ontario.