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John Chalke - Fine Art Ceramics

FINE ART PIECES - larger works

John Chalke - Late Fall Pebble Creek
Late Fall Pebble Creek, 2007
handformed, multiglazed and multifired to cone 04-05
8 x 2"
$800.00 CDN

 

Grey Overtakes on the Bend, 2006
stoneware clay, low fire, cone 04, hand formed.  Multiglazed, multifired.
10.5 x 8.5 x 2"
Published:  "Upfront," Ceramics Monthly, January 2008, 20.
Invitation Piece for New Work at Willock and Sax Gallery, January 2008
$1500.00 CDN

 

Grey Pod Up, Grey Pod Down, 2006
stoneware clay, low fire, cone 04, hand formed.  Multiglazed, multifired.
13 x 7.5 x 2"
$1800.00 CDN

 

Ice Crack at Alpenglow, 2008
handformed, multiglazed, multifired to cone 04-05
8x13.5x3"
$1500.00 CDN

 

Where the River Bends, 2008
handformed, multiglazed, multifired to cone 04-05
8.5 x 13 x 2"
$1500.00 CDN

 

January Portal, 2008
handformed, multiglazed, multifired to cone 04-05
9.5 x 8 x 2"
$1100.00 CDN

 

Half Chrysalis
handformed and fired in 2003; resurfaced/reglazed 2007 to cone 04-5
16x7x2.5"
$1800.00 CDN

 

White Plate with Double Circle
hand formed, multiglazed, multifired
10.5 x 11.5 x 1.5"
$950.00 CDN

 

#409
Clouds and Sun, 2004
hand formed, multiglazed, multifired
ovoid dark copper green with orange
13x11.5x2"
$950.00 CDN

 

One Handle, 2001
hand formed, multiglazed, multifired
7x10.5x4"
$950.00 CDN

 

Frequent exposure in the Rocky Mountain foothills to varying sun, wind and snowy conditions … clays and glazes generate thoughts of glacial lakes, drying prairie sloughs, river banks, patterns of farming … intimate views or grand sweeps …

 

#39
Tallest Ladder, 2000
oval wall plate
native saskatchewan clay, multiple slips and glazes, signed
8.5x10x2"
illustrated in Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts, 2000, p.19
exhibited at Celebrating John Chalke Past and Present, Triangle Gallery, Calgary, 2002
$1,100.00 CDN

 

"...Chalke challenges the pot in a significantly different way. Chalke is the punster potter, the craftsman still challenging his craft in exploratory directions....more deferential to an oriental-cum funky approach to his material and surfaces, curiously alternating obeisance and denial of an illustrious tradition."

Ricardo Gomez. "Western Canadian Ceramic Sculpture: A Ten Year Perspective." Issues in Clay: Western Canadian Sculpture. Edmonton: Latitude 53 Society of Artists, 1982:14.

 

Uneven White, Orange Wall Plate, 2000
various slips & glazes
10.5" diameter
Note: other in series part of Alberta Foundation for the Arts Collection
$350.00 CDN

 

FINE ART PIECES - smaller works

Green Square and Red Square, 2007
handbuilt pod form, multiglaze and multifired to cone 04-05
8 x 7 x 2.5"
$450.00 CDN

 

#37  
White Vase Shape with Two Spouts, 1998
hand formed, multiglazed, signed
10x4.5"
$450.00 CDN

 

"The real reason for making art, I think, is because it didn't work out, and then you go back to square one or square three or some square..." John Chalke (Collins, 9)

 

 

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