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Bradley
Keys, Calgary
Bradley Keys has distinguished himself by developing a popular line of purposeful ceramic work that explores and portrays the atmosphere of the Alberta prairie. He manipulates clays, slips and glaze colours, and adds regional icons such as grain elevators or buffalo, with delicacy and intimacy that come from loving the land. |
"Who Has Seen the Wind"
plate
Stoneware
31 cm (12.5 in)
On the prairies, we stand in a sea of wind … it touches every aspect of life … a cool summer breeze that rustles the trembling aspens … a thundering Chinook that can change the temperature by 40 degrees in an hour … wind mixes blues, greys, greens and purples of endless horizons, with the tans, ambers, rusty reds of wheat crops or furrowed fields … it is through making pots that I strive to connect myself to this place and time …
$150 CDN