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Left
to Right:
Pitcher
~ 11"tall ~ SOLD!
Creamer
~ 4.25"tall ~ $44
Creamer
~ 5.5"tall ~ $48
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Left
to Right:
All
2.5" x 8" ~ $55 ea.
Bird
Bowl
Dragonfly
Bowl
Frog
bowl
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Sea
Turtle Oval Bowl
9"w
x 16.5"l x 3.5"h
$145
SOLD!
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Sea
Turtle Oval Bowl
Side
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Turtle
Bowl
2.5"h
x 6.5"w
SOLD! |
Additional
pieces can be ordered - contact the gallery for ordering info!
Ken
Sedberry
Ken Sedberry received his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in
1977. Following that he was a Resident and Instructor at the Archie Bray
Foundation in Helena, Montana. He taught at the Catholic University of
America in Washington, D.C., before establishing his home studio in the
small mountain community of Loafers Glory, North Carolina. His work is
represented in private collections and exhibited in galleries throughout
the country.
One
of the most critical choices in Ken's life was to leave the urban arena
of Washington D.C. and move to the North Carolina mountains. He says there
seems to be a certain rightness there. "There are larger rhythms.
The trees and mountains shrink you right down. I'm less serious about
clay than I have ever been. Other priorities such as my kids and family,
friends and neighbors, running and soccer, take me away from the clay
and yet seem to allow me to accomplish more with it. In the last few years
my family and I have spent quite a bit of time in Central America. The
colors and imagery of the rainforests, the tropical flowers and the coral
reefs of the Caribbean have influenced my work greatly. The colors are
anything but subdued! The work seems to bring smiles to people's lives,
and that happiness is return to my family and me tenfold!"
Ken
loves the vibrant color palates he finds in nature, however wood-fired
pots are traditionally earthen-colored and muted. His goal "has been
to achieve color in wood firing - colors which combine with the conventional
wood-firing hues to create surfaces not unlike those found in Nature's
wildest fauna, flora and oceans!"
Ken
has said that he made the choice long ago to finish most of his work in
the wood burning kiln. "There's a connection there. You stay right
with it from beginning to end. Wood firing means allowing this process
to take some part in the aesthetics of the work. The variables are infinite
and one gives in to chance. There are two to three months of work in every
firing and there are no guarantees. It's continual risk. Unlike firing
in a gas or electric kiln, firing in a wood kiln is a twenty-some hour
process that demands constant attention. It requires gradually bringing
the heat to the approximately 2300 degrees."
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Ken
Sedberry 
