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Michaela Cochran
Sechelt
I choose porcelain as my material for many reasons: the fluidity it retains even when fired creates an animated appearance, its whiteness provides a ground that enhances brightly coloured glazes, while its translucency creates depth and intensifies this vividness. Its fine texture allows it to carry even the most intricate patterns and textures, and when thrown, it achieves a soft, voluminous quality that combines an inflated robustness with yielding vulnerability.
I have been influenced by ceramic artists such as Julia Galloway, Joan Bruneau and Linda Sikora, who all have exquisite mastery of the relationships between form, function and decoration. I also draw from ancient Chinese Han and Tang dynasty lead-glazed earthenware featuring brightly coloured, flowing glazes and 18th and 19th century European porcelain, which embraced detail and ornamentation in lavish excess.
My interest in colour, pattern and ornament has drawn me toward crystalline glazes, which I use as part of my glaze palette. The mood of my self-confident and highly energetic pots one of festivity, exuberance, and delight in existence. It is my ultimate goal that these emotions are carried on to those who see and use my work.
I choose porcelain as my material for many reasons: the fluidity it retains even when fired creates an animated appearance, its whiteness provides a ground that enhances brightly coloured glazes, while its translucency creates depth and intensifies this vividness. Its fine texture allows it to carry even the most intricate patterns and textures, and when thrown, it achieves a soft, voluminous quality that combines an inflated robustness with yielding vulnerability.
I have been influenced by ceramic artists such as Julia Galloway, Joan Bruneau and Linda Sikora, who all have exquisite mastery of the relationships between form, function and decoration. I also draw from ancient Chinese Han and Tang dynasty lead-glazed earthenware featuring brightly coloured, flowing glazes and 18th and 19th century European porcelain, which embraced detail and ornamentation in lavish excess.
My interest in colour, pattern and ornament has drawn me toward crystalline glazes, which I use as part of my glaze palette. The mood of my self-confident and highly energetic pots one of festivity, exuberance, and delight in existence. It is my ultimate goal that these emotions are carried on to those who see and use my work.
