Spring Break Pottery Classes

Kathleen brings a broad range of experience and enthusiasm to her ceramic work and teaching. She began her study of ceramics in San Francisco and then apprenticed in Santorini Greece with master potter Andreas Makaris where she learned traditional hand-building and wheel techniques. She studied glaze chemistry in Athens , Greece.

Kathleen has participated in many art festivals throughout British Columbia , including Circle Craft and the Filburg festival and for 13 years in the Eastside Culture Crawl. Her work has been exhibited and sold in Vancouver galleries and on Vancouver Island.

In 2014, Kathleen moved to Penticton, BC. Before this she had been living and working in Strathcona, Vancouver BC.

All of her forms are either made on the wheel or built by hand. She works on one of a kind pieces and on a production level, working primarily with high fire stone ware and porcelain clays. The work is then fired in an electric kiln.

Creating and mixing her own glazes allows a great range of colour choices . It is important to her that the glaze and colour compliment each other, resulting in pieces that are elegant and simple .

In her work , she remains committed to preserving both the integrity inherent in the classical form, while at the same time exploring the uniqueness and challenges presented by the medium of clay.