Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Suzi Cameron Pottery, Summerside

 The Nova Scotia Centre for Craft & Design has the following entry for:

Suzi Cameron BFA, BA
Cameron is an established stoneware potter and multi-media artist. During the winter, Suzi makes decorative tableware at Clayworks Pottery in Halifax and each summer, since 1986, Suzi has returned to her studio at the Lefurgey Cultural Centre in her hometown of Summerside, PEI. There she produces hand-painted pottery for sale on The Island. Cameron has received numerous scholarships and awards from The Banff Centre for the Arts to study with Harry Davis, Walter Ostrom and Bruce Cochrane, from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University to help complete a Bachelor of Fine Art, and this past year from the Nova Scotia Potters Guild for ongoing historic research. Her multi-media work has been included in international exhibitions and festivals.
The 2004 Craft, Art, and Giftware Guide issued by the Province of PEI indicated the stores where her work was sold at that time.



Nova Scotia Centre For Craft and Design photo.

Suzi signs her work with the following mark, "Suzi PEI"

From the collection of Tom Banks

From the collection of Tom Banks


Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Anne Coneen Pottery - The Pines - Montague

In 2012 three PEI potters gathered at Pottery by the Sea -
 Kerry Kingston's studio and shop in North Rustico. L-R, Kerry, Daphne Large, Anne Coneen.
When Anne married Allison Coneen her life would include following his career and moves across Canada to open finance offices. With a young family she found herself interested in taking up a craft while living in Ontario and thus enrolled in a pottery class. She enjoyed it greatly but didn't have her own pottery wheel so was dependent on the class facilities to continue.

On November 21, 1966, Allison and Anne Coneen bought an historic property in Montague, PEI that would become their home. Much more than home they operated it as a bed and breakfast called The Pines which served her pottery studio/shop and an antique store. After the kids were in bed she would head to the studio and find herself at 2 am some evening still there, immersed in her pottery work. She developed her own glazes and indicated that a clear glaze over red clay was one that she always enjoyed for its rich tone reflecting the iron oxide within the clay.

 Studio work of Anne Coneen.


 Studio work of Anne Coneen.

 Studio work of Anne Coneen.

 Studio work of Anne Coneen.


 Studio work of Anne Coneen.

Anne's daughter Wendy Coneen shared her mother's interest in pottery and studied in the clay studio of Holland College School of Visual Arts in 1976. Anne eventually sold the Montague property and moved to Charlottetown to be near family. It was a pleasure to meet with both Anne and Wendy in October 2016 when they paid a visit to Village Pottery in New London, PEI.

She signed much of her work with her full name  "Anne Coneen, PEI". In 1974 she was also signing with her initials in the format "ALC - PEI - 1974"


From the collection of Tom Banks
From the collection of Tom Banks



In January 2019 the crafts community was saddened to learn of her passing. Her obituary indicated:

Anne Jane Coneen


The death occurred at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital on Monday, January 28, 2019 of Anne J. Coneen (nee Pound) of Charlottetown and formerly of Montague, age 94 years. Beloved wife of the late Al Coneen and dear mother of Mike (Louise) Coneen, Wendy Coneen and Susan (Bill) O’Connor. Also survived by her grandchildren and great grandchildren Ben (Laura) Coneen and their children Alex and Owen; Kate (Jeremy Howard) Coneen and their children Emily, Emma, Thomas, Meg and Zach; Isaac (Kelly) Coneen; Jamie (Matt) O’Connor and Luke (Teigan) O’Connor; sister, Norma Stewart; sisters-in-law Onie, Betsy, Florence and Evelyn; numerous nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her parents Bill and Blanche (nee Taylor) Pound and brothers and sisters Jean Jackson, Helen MacLean, Melvin, Donald, Eliza Hansen, Clara Ramsay, Tressa Pound, Ora Gass, Lowell, George, Lloyd, and Reigh. Resting at the Hennessey Cutcliffe Charlottetown Funeral Home until Saturday, then transferred to Park Royal United Church for funeral service at 1 p.m. Interment later in Floral Hills Memorial Gardens, Pleasant Valley. Visiting hours at the funeral home on Friday from 4 - 7 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Heart & stroke Foundation of PEI or the Alzheimers Society. On-line condolences may be made at www.islandowned.ca




Leslie Kwiatkowski - PEI Smoke-Fired Pottery & Crooked Barn Pottery

The website of the PEI Crafts Council indicates:

PEI Smoke-Fired Pottery

Leslie Kwiatkowski

Clay, Raku Pottery

Find us at the Crooked Barn Pottery Studio, as well as in craft shops in Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. We have an array of smoke-fired, horsehair, raku and functional pottery. Something for everyone to enjoy.

 Find PEI Smoke-Fired Pottery on Facebook.

Address: Studio at 2492 Route 12, South West Lot 16, Miscouche
Mailing Address: R R #1 1917 Route 12, Miscouche, PE, C0B 1T0, Canada
Phone: 902-436-4054
Email: info@peismokefiredpottery.ca
Website http://www.geocities.ws/peisfp/





All photos from PEI Crafts Council website

Candy Gallant - Sweet and Sour Gargoyles

The PEI Crafts Council website indicates: 

Sweet and Sour Gargoyles
Candy Gallant
Clay, Pottery Sculptures
Address: RR #1 2494 Rte 12, Miscouche, PE, C0B 1T0, Canada
Phone: 902-436-1781
Email: ssgargoyles@pei.aibn.com
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Candy Gallant trained at Holland College School of Visual Arts with Barry Jeeves and Ron Arvidson during the 1970's, and has been a practicing potter on Prince Edward Island for many years.

She operated her business under the name Crooked Barn Pottery as well as Sweet and Sour Gargoyles.


Darren Matheson - Trout River Pottery

The Artisan PEI website indicates:

Trout River Pottery Owner: Darren Matheson
Location: 2088 Trout River Rd., Millvale, PEI
Email Us
Mailing Address:
2088 Trout River Rd., Millvale, PEI
Ph: 902-621-0498
Island artisan Darren Matheson invites you to visit his studio along the Trout River Road in pictuesque Millvale, where peace and tranquility inspire clay creations mirroring the natural environment. 
Photo Credit - Artisan PEI website



Robert McMillan Pottery

The PEI Crafts Council website indicates that:

Handmade porcelain and stoneware pottery by Atlantic Artisan Robert McMillan. Featuring unique designs and bright colors in a wide range of functional gift ware that are microwaveable, dishwasher and oven proof and 100% lead free glazes.

Robert McMillan Facebook page.
Instagram

Address: Borden-Carleton, PEI C0B1X0
Phone: 902-598-8217
Email: penguinmcmillan@gmail.com

Robert McMillan's website - indicates:
"Robert McMillan Pottery represents the accumulation of over 40 years of pottery making experience and craftsmanship by the artist with timeless and enduring patterns.
I use only a high grade commercial stoneware and porcelain clay body that is mid fired to 2200 degrees f.
All of my designs are artistically created from glaze formulas that are 100% lead free as well as being 100% food safe & microwave safe and oven proof and dishwasher friendly.
Sandy Dunes colours are representative of current colour trends that are being used in the ceramics, clothing, paint and decorating industries in North America.
My palette includes among other things, Cayenne Red, Dazzling Blue, Hemlock Green, Freesia Yellow, Celosia Orange and Comfrey Green.
I also incorporate a Cobalt Blue that is rich and deep in tone that has been a staple of pottery makers for centuries around the globe.
The use of a local clay body adds an element of natural colouring and keepsake.
I dig the clay locally from a secured source and clean it, slake it, screen and add stabilizers to adapt it to the main clay body.
I am ever cognizant of form and function in my own work as “Made by hand for your hand” is an important aspect in all my pieces.
Many of my current works reflects the beauty of my area that so dominates the Canadian Atlantic scenery.
Robert McMillan"




Potters mark in 2018 for Robert McMillan is "McMillan"  






Hermann-Suzuki Pottery

The website of the Hermann-Suzuki Pottery indicates:


Isako Suzuki grew up in her father's ceramic studio in Odawara, Japan. Her father, Sansei Suzuki (鈴木三成), is a renowned ceramicist in Japan for his celadon Seiji work, Song style celadon pottery. Isako had been initially trained in wheel-throwing by her father before she started working independently.

After some years of on and off relationship with pottery, she started working on a full-time basis creating her own style of pottery. Her main focus  is colored clay construction or Neriage which she originally took interest in 2008.

Isako continues to seek aesthetic recommendations and critique on her Neriage work from Sansei Suzuki.

She is the primary potter for Hermann-Suzuki Pottery.
As well:
Philip Hermann started pottery with pottery classes at potters' coop studio in Charlottetown, PEI in 2002. Since then, he has participated in various workshops and advanced classes over the years. He now mainly produces large and medium wheel-thrown pieces as well as handbuilt slab work, surface decoration and some Nerikomi work. Philip also takes part in production of commercial product lines as well as management of wholesale products. Philip is a part-time potter for Hermann-Suzuki Pottery as he holds a full-time job elsewhere.  

Their contact information is:

Mailing Address:
PO Box 726 Cornwall
PEI Canada
C0A 1H0

Shop location (summer) :
4740 Route 6 Oyster Bed Bridge, PEI
Tel: 902-621-2161
Our home studio will remain in Cornwall, PEI.

Catherine Hennessey publishes book on Prince Edward Island Pottery Company

Fifty years after buying her first clay jug, Catherine Hennessey ends her quest for answers by publishing Prince Edward Island Pottery Company

by Sally Cole scole@theguardian.pe.ca
Published by The Guardian on January 15, 2015

Catherine Hennessey holds one of the pieces that first piqued her curiosity in pottery 50 years ago. The Charlottetown historian has just published the Prince Edward island Pottery Company.

©GUARDIAN PHOTO BY SALLY COLE

When Catherine Hennessey bought her first clay jug at a Charlottetown auction in 1965, she became curious.
“It looked like it had been made of Island clay, but nobody around could tell me anything about it,” says Hennessey, who purchased the piece to sell in her antique shop in Charlottetown.
She also wanted to be able to share any of that historical information with whomever might buy the jug.
Luckily, a chance meeting with George Leard, a Souris historian, gave her a push in the right direction.
“He told me he thought it was a piece of P.E.I. pottery. He didn’t know anything else,” she recalls.
Discovering that so little was known about the jug was distressing for her.
“It made me nervous,” says Hennessey, who realized she needed to learn more about the pottery, as well as the furniture she was selling.
So, she locked the shop and refused to sell another piece until she had finished her research.
“We didn’t know anything about anything. And (the pickers) were taking (antiques) off the Island by the truckload. And they didn’t know the stories behind the things they were collecting.”
As it turns out, the well-known Island historian never returned to the antique business, but she never left the business of historical research.
Fast-forward 50 years and Hennessey now has the answers to many of her pottery questions in her newly published book, Prince Edward Island Pottery Company. Filled with historical information and anecdotes, the 26-page publication includes colour and black and white photographs of pottery, as well as maps, illustrations and newspaper clippings.
“I’m so quietly happy about this little book. People have been telling me that it’s so important to put little packages of history together, like this. That’s because, if we don’t, these little bits of history will be lost,” says Hennessey, adding the company, Prince Edward Island Pottery, was started in 1880 by Frederick William Hyndman, after his career with the Royal Navy.
Upon moving home, he and his brother Charles, also an entrepreneur opened the business west of Mount Edward Road and south of what is now Belvedere Avenue.
“The site covered about eight acres and included the lily pond that is on the Experimental Farm today. It is said to have one of the sources of pottery clay,” writes Hennessey in the book.
The volume also provides details of the professional dig on the old pottery site conducted in 1970, under the direction of Donald Webster.
“We were really blessed that that man came from the Royal Ontario Museum to do the dig and we have his work, which I’ve quoted quite generously.”
Hyndman’s great-grandson, also named Fred Hyndman, is generous in his praise for the new publication.
“I’ve known that, for a long time, (Catherine) had a particular interest in P.E.I. pottery. She collected things over the years and she’s finally put it together. I think it’s wonderful that she’s done it and that the information is saved for posterity.”
The positive response Hennessey is receiving for the book is encouraging her to do more research on items she has come across in the past.
“What’s next? I am planning a book on Island furniture, an article on Helen Haszard, an artist, as well as something on Victoria Park.
“After all, why stop at one thing if you can do three more?”

AT A GLANCE
Fast facts
What: Prince Edward Island Pottery Company
Where: Pottery for the book is from the P.E.I. Museum and Heritage Foundation collection. Private collectors also loaned their collections.
The decorative tiles that surround the upper part of the chancel at St. Paul’s Church were created by the P.E.I. Pottery Company.
A section on the Spring Park Pottery, a forerunner to Prince Edward Island Pottery, is also included in the book.
Copies of the book: Available at Charlottetown at Details Past and Present, the Book Mark and Showcase, the Confederation Centre gift shop, in Charlottetown.

Jaiden Carragher Pottery, PEI

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