Vera Van Schaick is a potter who has been working with clay since 1976. She was living in Santa Barbara then when she happened to see a neighbor using a potters' wheel. She was intrigued so she signed up for classes and soon became hooked.
She has worked steadily in all phases of potting from mixing the clay to throwing, coloring and firing her pieces, and even giving classes. This experience shows in the quality and design of her finished pieces.
Vera does many functional pieces: cups, bowls, place settings and platters. However, she also likes to sculpt and she has many playful decorative pieces in the Gallery, also. My favorite is the oval platter with the sculpted asparagus looking very edible on it.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
January Artist of the Month
This month Linda Cannefax, one of the doyennes of the Sonoma County weaving community, is a featured artist at the Artisans' Co-op. She has been weaving for over thirty years. During that time she has produced a body of work she can be proud of. She has had her garments featured in magazines and books and she wears her own jackets and vests frequently. She has developed patterns that are flattering to most of us and she loves using colors.
As well as weaving and sewing her creations, Linda continues to adorn them with hand beading and screening on surface motifs. This adds to the "Illusion of Fantasy" that she is striving for in her work.
Linda also likes to paint her warps before weaving them. This, again is another layer of care and interest and color play that make her weavings collectors items.
As well as weaving and sewing her creations, Linda continues to adorn them with hand beading and screening on surface motifs. This adds to the "Illusion of Fantasy" that she is striving for in her work.
Linda also likes to paint her warps before weaving them. This, again is another layer of care and interest and color play that make her weavings collectors items.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Resuming By Hand--November and December 2009
Your faithful blog mistress has been on an unplanned sabbatical for a few months, but now I'm back! I've missed telling you about our featured artists for November, Linda Jacobs and Angel Fiorito-Leddy.
Both of these women use leather as their main medium. Linda designs baby moccasins and baby tams of the softest of leather, sometimes burning designs on their surfaces. She also creates women's hats and accessories in luxurious fur. However, the items that spark the greatest interest among our shoppers are her line of hats made from locally harvested and spun fur from many pet dogs! Each hat is labelled with the name and breed of the pampered pup who donated his coat.
Linda's creations are always on display and for sale in the Co-op.
Angel is our bootmaker. She crafts beautiful, comfortable and durable leather boots and slippers with outdoor soles and fur inside. They make you feel like you're walking on a cloud! And- if your feet are hard to fit or you need corrective insoles, or if you want a special design, she will custom fit and make just what you want and need!
When spring rolls around, she also makes sandals.
Angel has been designing and crafting footwear since 1977 and has perfected her craft.
When December rolls around our Co-op becomes a wonderland for Holiday Shoppers. Not only do we have our regular stock of of unique items in yarn, clay, basketry, wall hangings, cards as well as fine art paintings and photography, we also sell handcrafted ornaments.
We have everything from wooly sheep to hang on the tree, tiny knit Christmas stockings, quilted angels and ceramic balls and anything else our artist can dream of and construct to celebrate the holiday season.
Artisans' Co-op is the perfect place to find gifts for everyone you know as well as to treat yourself to something special.
Both of these women use leather as their main medium. Linda designs baby moccasins and baby tams of the softest of leather, sometimes burning designs on their surfaces. She also creates women's hats and accessories in luxurious fur. However, the items that spark the greatest interest among our shoppers are her line of hats made from locally harvested and spun fur from many pet dogs! Each hat is labelled with the name and breed of the pampered pup who donated his coat.
Linda's creations are always on display and for sale in the Co-op.
Angel is our bootmaker. She crafts beautiful, comfortable and durable leather boots and slippers with outdoor soles and fur inside. They make you feel like you're walking on a cloud! And- if your feet are hard to fit or you need corrective insoles, or if you want a special design, she will custom fit and make just what you want and need!
When spring rolls around, she also makes sandals.
Angel has been designing and crafting footwear since 1977 and has perfected her craft.
When December rolls around our Co-op becomes a wonderland for Holiday Shoppers. Not only do we have our regular stock of of unique items in yarn, clay, basketry, wall hangings, cards as well as fine art paintings and photography, we also sell handcrafted ornaments.
We have everything from wooly sheep to hang on the tree, tiny knit Christmas stockings, quilted angels and ceramic balls and anything else our artist can dream of and construct to celebrate the holiday season.
Artisans' Co-op is the perfect place to find gifts for everyone you know as well as to treat yourself to something special.
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