COLORADO POTTERS
(all measurements of pottery are approximate as each piece is individually created)
By clicking on the picture, you will have a tour of the artist's pottery...sizes and prices.
Pieces may have changed by the time you see this. Please ask about our current selection and pricing.
Terry Acker
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Terry Acker received a degree in Fine Art
at the University of South Florida. After traveling about
the country one summer, she fell in love with Colorado
and moved to the Fort Collins area, where she has lived
ever since, sharing some acreage with her family, five
cats and assorted chickens,ducks, geese and wild life.
She has always been interested in nature and has drawn
much of her inspiration and ideas from it; using leaves,
shells,plants and birds to create textures and images in
clay. She often works in pastel painting in between
making pots. "Working in a two dimensional medium
with line and color is a nice break from clay and gives
me a fresh outlook on my pottery." Bowls, platters, pitchers, vases, cat trays, rabbit trays and other pottery pieces are her standards. Special orders are also possible. Let us know what you are interested in, and we'll let you know if it is in stock or if an order is possible. |
Wolosyn - Doty Pottery
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Olga Wolosyn and Jim Doty founded
Wolosyn-Doty Pottery in the early 1980's when they
combined their lives and pottery skills. They each throw,
trim and decorate the pots. While they are production
potters, each piece is unique. Every piece has the look
and feel of an individual piece that has been hand made. The glazing and decorating techniques take twice as long as the throwing. It takes a little over two weeks, sometimes three, to produce and fire a kiln load of pots. The Grand Lake Art Gallery features two very different styles of pottery from Wolosyn-Doty. Their bold Aspen design captures the beauty of Colorado's magnificent aspen forests, such as can be enjoyed around Grand Lake. The Sandstorm is subtle neutral pottery that compliments any decor. Both designs are fully functional and come in bowls, platters, pitchers, vases, chip and dip sets, mugs, covered casseroles, candle holders, mirrors and other pottery pieces. Special orders are also possible. Let us know what you are interested in, and we'll let you know what we have in stock or if a special order is possible. |
| Cynthia Ryals Cynthia graduated with a BFA in Ceramics in 1973, and worked in Washington, D.C. for 20 years. She was happy to escape the stresses of the East Coast, and moved to the mountains where she can peacefully concentrate on her art and enjoy the slow and friendly pace of life. Cynthia's pottery is functional, and includes pie plates, bowls, honey jars, pitchers, chip and dip sets, mugs and more. |
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Anita Garfein "I delight in shaping an amorphous piece of clay into a definite form--an act of creation. Although I work in high-fired stoneware, usually not known for vivid colors, I am able to achieve a lively, colorful effect by using strongly contrasting glazes." Her love of the forms and hues of the mountains and plains provide the inspiration for her work. She creates each piece with the hope that it will provide pleasure and grace as a part of your daily life. It should look and feel good. Anita lives in Littleton, Colorado with her family which includes two cats, and works in a potters' cooperative. Her stoneware is dishwasher safe and contains no toxic
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Lou Beatty
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Lou Beatty has been working with clay for the past 25 years. After receiving a BA in 1974, she ventured west to help establish a cooperative studio in Fort Collins. There she taught classes and produced a line of pottery.
In 1982, she moved her studio to the foothills where she currently lives and works with her husband and two children. Her stoneware pottery is greatly influenced by the beautiful wildflowers she sees on her daily walk in the mountains. As a painter she enjoys the variety of colors and techniques she can explore using her pottery as a canvas to decorate. She also paints in other media and has shown her work throughout the U.S.The stoneware pottery is lead-free, microwave, dishwasher and oven friendly. Care should be taken not to submit the pottery to sudden temperature changes.
Patty Alander
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Patty works in both two and three dimensions, creating both clay monotype prints and sawdust fired pottery. She lives in the Grand Lake area, and her studio overlooks the Colorado River
Her pots are painted with layers of different colors of terra sigillata - a very fine colloidal slip, burnish and bisque fired, and then layered in a can of sawdust, with chemicals added for various effects. After firing, the pots are cleaned and waxed both for protection and to enhance the shiny surface.
Alice Pierson - Wildfire Pottery
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The spirit of natural land forms in Colorado influences Alice's hand thrown high fire pottery. Representations of native plants and animals often appear in the designs.
Now at home in Bailey, Colorado, she lived and produced pottery in western Colorado and southern New Mexico. She was president of the regional potters' guild of Los Cruces, New Mexico for two years and active in organizing workshops, juried shows, sales, and the Empty Bottle Project. "The mentoring and sharing of the love of clay was a very enriching experience."
Alice's high fire stoneware is lead-free, oven proof, and dishwasher safe. Alice creates functional art to hold the ordinary and precious.
Kim Glidden
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Effects of flamed earth are creatively captured in Kim's raku-fired pottery and sculptures. Glazed pieces are rapidly fired and are removed from the kiln at 1600-1800 degress. Various post-firing techniques produce coppers, metallic colors, and crackle patterns. Each piece is as unique as the artist's firing experience.
Karen Stauffer
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Karen Stauffer is a young potter with almost 20 years experience in clay. Working with high fired stoneware and porcelain clays, her pottery is hand built, or hand thrown on a kickwheel. Karen strives for the timeless combination of form and function. She mixes her own glazes and fires her pottery in the gas kiln she designed and built. The high fired stoneware and porcelain clays are durable and oven, microwave, and dishwasher safe.
A full time studio potter, Karen lives in Lakewood, Colorado. She is a frequent visitor to Grand Lake for fly fishing, hiking and cross-country skiing.
Bil Buhler
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Bil started his journey in clay in the early 1980's, when he saw a pot being made on a wheel in Ghiradelli Square in San Francisco. Bil continues to take workshops, always enhancing his chosen avocation. Bil works primarily on the wheel, creating objects that are basically round.
The temmoku (dark brown) is one of the most famous and admired old Chinese glazes. The porcelain clay is high-fired to a very durable, non-porous state that is oven, microwave and dishwasher safe. The wood ash pottery is a new pattern of pottery for Bil.
Raku firing is very different, and no two pieces will ever be the same. When a piece has reached temperature, it is submitted to various post-firing processes, perhaps involving an iron bearing oxide, horsehair, paper or other combustible material. Raku is suitable for dry flower arrangements only.
Nancy Zoller
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"In the summer of my 12th year (some time ago now), my parents introduced me to the Grand Lake area. They came from Arizona to manage, and later purchase the El Navajo Lodge on Shadow Mountain Lake. Since that time, a large part of my heart has always remained in this area.
Zoller Pottery is wheel-thrown and hand built stoneware. It is completely handcrafted and hand painted. Because of the uniqueness of this process, there will, naturally, be variance in color, shades, and brushstrokes. No two items will be alike. "My clay body is a mixture of porcelain and white stoneware - giving the piece the depth and beauty of porcelain and the versatility of stoneware. Life is created in the piece with an awareness of form, different surface textures, overlapping colored stains, and the beauty of the gas firing."
"When I am throwing on the wheel, all of life comes into balance for me. It is my hope that Zoller Pottery will also satisfy a need for beauty and balance in the lives of others through its use in their daily lives."
Jan Rowen Jan grew up in the midwest, and earned her masters degree from the University of Northern Colorado. Now retired as a high school art teacher, she enjoys working with clay, and particularly the raku process. This process provides spontaneity and surprise.
Jan finds the creative process a way of connecting to a more real world. She aligns with the tenets of wabi-sabi, a Japanese aesthetic which encompasses the spiritual/philosophical as well as the material/sensual.
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Danni Bangert
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About 25 years ago, I saw a beautiful set of handmade pottery dinnerware and became fascinated with the possibility of learning to make my own. Since that time, I have made both functional pottery and sculptural forms. And you might say that I have become "addicted" to clay. I live with the various aspects of the clay process almost every moment of the day and night. By day, I sculpt or throw pieces, and at night I dream up solutions to clay problems. I am active in several organizations that allow clay artists networking, marketing and inspirational opportunities. My most supportive critic and best studio helper is my husband, Merv.
My journey with clay is spiritual as well as physical. You will see the outward meandering of my inner journey in the decorations, designs, and forms I produce.
I hope you find joy, service, pleasure, and perhaps some new inspiration as you live with my work!
Sumi von Dassow
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Sumi von Dassow is an award winning ceramic artist who lives in Golden, Colorado. Her love of color and form is expressed in a varied and unique body of work ranging from brightly glazed functional pottery to unglazed burnished work.
Sumi's work is well-known to Colorado art lovers, appearing in the Cherry Creek Arts Festival, the annual juried "Colorado Clay" at the Foothills Art Center in Golden and the invitational "From the Earth" at the Arts Bridge in Lakewood. She was chosen to present her art in an exhibit entitled "The Object of Colorado" for world leaders during the 2001 G7 Summit in Denver.
Connie Christensen
Peter and Susan Stark have been making functional pottery in Longmont since 1993. Their pieces are stoneware, which is then covered with a white opaque glaze, and decorated with colorful imagery. The Starks make their functional pieces because they like the fact that the art they make immerses itself into other peoples' everyday lives.
Peter makes the pottery and Susan decorates it. Peter likes his pieces to appear animated and to impart a sense of volume or fullness. He throws most of the forms on a pottery wheel and then manipulates them off and on the wheel to achieve the shapes he desires.
Susan uses the Majolica Technique to decorate the pots, which is a colorful watercolor-like decoration that is applied on top of an opaque white background glaze. Traditionally, Majolica is done on low-fired red clay, but the Starks use a white stoneware body that is fired at a mid-range temperature, and thus is very durable and functional after it is fired.
Nick and Joan Zappa
Nick and Joan Zappa have been producing beautiful, functional stoneware pottery for over twenty years. Living and working first in their studio in Evergreen, they moved to southwestern Colorado in 1990.
Their high quality, lead free stoneware may be used safely in microwave and conventional ovens, and is dishwasher safe. It is recommended that all stoneware pottery be allowed to preheat along with the oven in order to avoid possible thermal shock. Do not take pottery from freezer or refrigerator and place in a preheated oven. Never place pottery on direct heat.
Each finished piece will have gone through over forty steps before the final gas kiln firing, in which it is fired to temperatures exceeding 2370 degrees Fahrenheit. With proper care each piece will give lasting use and enjoyment.
The gallery represents numerous other artists, including Brenda Neeley, Judy Therrien, Etta Satter, Walter Hyler, Cathy Zeeb, and Lisa Allen. A sampling of their works appears here. See more of their work when you stop by the Gallery, located on the boardwalk in Grand Lake.
Brenda Neeley's clay kneeling angel is 4" tall and $18. Walter Hyler's weed vase is 8" tall and $50. Etta Satter's tea pot is 7" tall and $49, and her mug (each with a different famous quote) is 5" tall and $25. Judy Therrin's vessel is 10" tall and $90. Lisa Allen's pine needle vases vary in price from $99 to $279 (shown is $219). Cathy Zeeb's mountain flower oil candles range in price from $25 to $35 (shown is $35)
Check to see which new artists have joined us when you visit the gallery.
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Grand Lake Art Gallery
1117 Grand Avenue
P.O. Box 1468
Grand Lake, Colorado 80447
e-mail: glag@grandlakeartgallery.com
Phone/FAX (970) 627-3104
