I place a bit of my soul in every piece I make, likened to a grain of sand over time producing a lustrous pearl.

Rikki Gill

www.rikkigillceramics.com

The most intimate of art forms is ceramics. It is the one we live with. What a pleasure to drink your morning coffee from a well-crafted, hand made cup. In thirty-five years of working in clay, Rikki has learned to combine her love of clay with her own style of painting. Working at a very high temperature allows her to simultaneously access color at its most beautiful, with porcelain clay at its strongest. She creates dinnerware and other functional pieces.

Educated in Boston at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts; moving to the west coast, she enrolled at U.C.Berkeley to study with Peter Voulkos. After graduating, she set up her home studio in Berkeley.

Hidden Spring Designs

http://www.hiddenspringdesigns.com

Hidden Spring Designs is an artistic collaboration between Rob Matthews and Leslie Guinan. They were drawn together by a shared aesthetic and a love of fine craftsmanship. Each has a different area of expertise and design background, but together they create art and furniture that is a synergistic expression.

Rob and Leslie cast unique glass designs into concrete, which is stained and textured to look like stone. They create one-of-a-kind benches, tables, countertops and pieces which can hang on a wall or fence. While similar to mosaic, Rob and Leslie’s pieces have a perfectly smooth surface. Iridescent glass catches the light and changes color with the slightest movement. This gives their work a magical quality which never fails to delight.

Rob and Leslie are partners in life and art. When they begin work on a collaborative piece they share in the entire design process. Hidden Spring Designs encompasses both their individual and collaborative pieces.

Mickey Sosin

Jacqueline Thompson

http://www.jacquelinethompsonceramics.com/

I have always been interested in the classic tattoos of the 30s, 40s & 50sfor some time and have taken my skills as a graphic designer and as a ceramic artistto produce this line of tattoo ceramics.

They are food, dishwasher and microwave safe.
There are 5 basic designs.
1) True Love-hand and heart
2) Dagger/Rose
3) Love with Bluebird
4) Scared heart and
5) Lucky

Lidija Tkalcevic

Lidija was born in Croatia where she received her education in economics. Her preoccupation with art flourished here in California where she moved to in the eighties. Interest in the human body is present from the beginning. She is trying to capture funny and sad moments of everyday life in her sculptures. Common people and little things that make our lives can be found in Lidija's work. Expressed in somewhat stylized and simplified form influenced by "naive" painters of her country, Lidija finds her own way. Form and texture are very important to her. The sculptures are done in sculpture mix, with surface finished in B-mix. The color comes from clay stains and oxides, and firing is done at cone 5. Lidija's interest in new materials, glass and bronze, has further enhanced her ability to express movement and emotion. Her bronze, glass and clay sculptures are vibrant, whimical and refreshing.