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Les
Manning, Medicine Hat
Les Manning's artistic career spans 40 years, from studio potter to senior arts administrator. He is one of the founders of the Alberta Craft Council and ran the prestigious Banff Centre ceramics program. In semi-retirement he coordinates the ceramics residency at the historic Medalta Potteries in Medicine Hat. His visually complex and technically sophisticated landscape pieces are exhibited internationally. Les was recently honoured with an Alberta Centennial Medal for his contribution to fine craft in Alberta. |
"Wind Form"
Laminated stoneware and porcelain with celadon glaze, sandblasted surfaces and silver amalgam
29 cm (11.5 in)
An abstracted vessel … of the Rocky Mountains … or is it the open prairies? … thrown and altered clays manipulated by the artist's mind … like land forms eroded by ice and water … river stones or distant landscape views … simultaneously massive and intimate …
$1775 CDN