Ceramics

Machiko Townson

Born and raised in the birthplace of Japanese porcelain, Arita, Saga, Machiko grew up where not only her grandmother was a dish painter, but most of her neighbours were dish painters themselves. Machiko remembers watching her grandmother painting dishes at home every night after school. Needless to say, she enjoyed her art classes in elementary […]

Mas Funo

Masatada Funo was born in Seattle, Washington to parents of Japanese descent. He is a long-time resident of Vancouver, British Columbia. A self-taught potter, Mas has been working with clay for 45 years. His distinctive boxes and sculptures are collected by admirers in Canada, the United States, Europe and Japan. Tea ceremony masters in Japan […]

Robert Shiozaki

Robert Shiozaki is a ceramic artist with forty-plus years of experience working with clay. His formative studies were in Vancouver at the Vancouver School of Art, and Kyoto, Japan, at the Kyoto School of Fine Arts. He teaches carving and modelling at Totally Ceramics in Surrey and the Port Moody Arts Centre, where he has […]

Harold Takayesu

Harold Takayesu was a highly-regarded Hamilton-based ceramicist. In 2002, he received the Mather Award from the Ontario Craft Council for outstanding contribution to crafts over an extended period.

Stan Taniwa

Stan Taniwa is a muralist and ceramicist based in Manitoba. Born in Chemainus, Taniwa’s family was forcibly removed from the coast when he was a baby and lived in an internment camp, eventually resettling in Thunder Bay. Taniwa studied architectural drafting and later ceramics at the University of Manitoba. He began exhibiting his clay works […]

Sadashi Inuzuka

Sadashi Inuzuka is a visual artist with a background in ceramics who also creates installations and public art projects. Born in Japan, he had a life-long ambition to immigrate to North America and become an artist. He received a diploma from the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in 1985, and went on to […]

Isao Sanami Morrill

Isao Sanami Morrill is a Japanese-born and educated potter and painter based in Nova Scotia. In addition to studying pottery with several Japanese masters, she has also studied Western pottery methods with Don Morrill, her husband, and others. She has travelled the world to study her craft in such places as Mexico, Nigeria, where she […]

Takako Suzuki

Takako Suzuki is a Japanese-born potter who practiced in Vancouver prior to her retirement. She studied at Meiji University in Tokyo, and after immigrating to Canada, at Emily Carr College of Art & Design. Her work was shown in a number of solo and group exhibitions in the 1980s and 1990s, primarily in Vancouver, and […]

Noboru Kubo

Noboru Kubo was a Japanese-born and educated fourth generation master potter. In Japan he studied his craft alongside his father, and at the Kyoto Industrial Arts School, where he received a degree in 1964. He first came to North America in 1969, and exhibited in multiple solo, group, invitational, and juried shows in Canada and […]

Michiko Nakamura

Michiko Nakamura is a ceramic artist, born and raised in Japan. Her relationship to clay and art began in childhood; she grew up near a town famous for its history of over 1200 years of pottery production. Since elementary school, she liked to create three-dimensional objects so it was a natural choice for her to […]

Marjene Matsunaga Turnbull

Marjene Matsunaga Turnbull is a ceramicist and doll-maker. She produced functional pottery from 1987 – 2012. She also created Nikkei kokeshi (Japanese wooden dolls) – each one unique in facial expression and design. From 1981, Turnbull compiled family stories and in 1991 finished writing and editing the book Hisaoka Family Memoirs. Turnbull needed to know […]

Kinichi Shigeno

Kinichi Shigeno is a ceramicist. Originally from Nagano, Japan, Kinichi has been practising his unique ceramic style in Richmond, BC since 1984. His works have been included in such prestigious collections as the Claridge Collection and the Campbell Soup collection in the United States. His traditional use of cobalt underglazes and his intricate designs reflect […]

Yoshiko Sunahara

Yoshiko Sunahara is a sculptor, ceramicist, and mixed media artist. With many international exhibitions, and public commissions utilizing large-scale cast bronze and ceramic sculpture in her earlier portfolio, Yoshiko’s current work employs mixed media medallic sculpture in the form of ‘hand-held’ sculptures. Yoshiko’s work reflects a deep concern over environmental and social issues, voicing protest […]

Satoshi Saito

A sculptor, graduate of Keio University and member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Satoshi Saito has been working with Louise Doucet Saito, herself a sculptor, since 1963. In 1965, Satoshi and Louise travelled to Japan at the invitation of Tatsuzo Shimaoka. There they worked to produce two exhibitions of ceramics, in Utsunomiya and […]

John Ikeda

John Ikeda is a ceramicist.