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Nancy Roberts,
Ceramic Sculpture Nancy Roberts,
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Canada

Website: https://nspotters.com/nancy-roberts

Email: nancy.roberts@ns.sympatico.ca

Artist Statement:
My creations project attitude and are usually plant-ish or animal-ish. With a degree of sentience, they probe and exuberate. This is sculpture, but it’s also functional. It gives pleasure, makes connections, generates questions, demonstrates feeling and attitude. The ideas come from some inner place that I don't control, but like.

Studio Description:
My basement, nice and cool in the summer. User-friendly and spacious once you duck the central supporting beam of the 100-year-old house. Best move was adding a half-high door/window for more light/air and for putting out sculptures to load into the car.

What type of clay do you use?
 

Stoneware all colours, porcelain.

What temperature do you fire to?
 

Cone 6.

What is your primary forming method?
 

Coil, slab, hand-forming, and hybrids of these.


What is your favorite surface treatment?

 

Glaze-enhanced texture.

Do you make any of your own tools?

 

I don't make, but co-opt kitchen and workshop tools all the time. I make textured press molds for slab work.


What one word would you use to describe your work?

 

Organic.


What is your favorite thing about your studio?

 

Being in charge of it.


What is the one thing in your studio you can’t live without?
 

Bright daylight fluorescents over the work table.


What are your top three studio wishes?
 

Self-cleaning, especially the spray booth. Closer water supply (coming this year).

What’s on your current reading list?
 

Frances Ekwuyensi, Butter Honey Pig Bread.

 

What challenges have you given yourself to overcome?
I challenge myself to produce a body of work by applying and being accepted for solo shows. A sizable commitment for new work keeps me going.


What did you first piece look like?
My mother loved it.

What ceramic superpower would you have and why?
Freedom from indecision; it would save time and the results might be just as good.
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