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Steve Frederick & Cherie Jemsek |
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Cermaic
Vase -SA
#3
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Cermaic
Vase -SA
# 5
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Cermaic
Vase -Classic
# 111
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Price
:$ 135.(Ships within 4 weeks)
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Price
:$ 135.(Ships within 4 weeks)
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Price
:$ 135.(Ships within 4 weeks)
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Cermaic Vase -CSF Laurel |
Cermaic
Vase -CSF
Bleeding Hearts
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Price :$ 135.(Ships within 4 weeks) |
Price :$ 135.(Ships within 4 weeks) |
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Classic
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Petals
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Originally from Iowa, Steve studied pottery at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine under Mutsuo Yanaginara and Jack Troy in 1973. Quickly establishing himself as a studio potter, he first produced hand thrown functional stoneware fired at Cone 10-11 reduction in a Minnesota flat top gas kiln. After attending the 'Clay from Molds' Workshop sponsored by the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in 1978 with Richard Knotkin and Jack Earl, he added cast and assembled sculptural one-of-a-kind pieces to his repertoire. In 1997, antique collector and friend, Art Accardi, introduced Steve to the pottery of the Arts & Crafts Movement. All of his work is now in this style. Each piece is hand thrown on the potter's wheel and then sculpted with repetitive leaf and floral patterns. Cherie
met Steve in the 60's while they both were attending Coe College
in Iowa. She joined him in 1976. Her artistic ability is strongest
in sculpting. All of her experience in clay is in hand building
first with press molding, then with cast and assembled porcelain
and now in one-of-a kind sculpted pieces. While relying on the Arts
& Crafts style, she exaggerates the flora theme on these pots
by sculpting them individually after Steve throws the basic form
on the wheel. |
Steve Frederick and Cherie Jemsek create stoneware pots inspired by the Arts and Crafts vases of turn-of-the-century New England. The vases are hand-thrown on a potter's wheel before being modeled, sculpted and finished with the traditional variegated green glaze. Their pots delightfully capture the essence of the Arts and Crafts movement.
Steve and Cherie say, of their own work, "The results are truly stunning; vessels made of crisp, petal-like leaves at times punctuated by the most delicate yellow or rose buds, waiting to showcase a prized house plant or summer garden's bounty of flowers'
Each pot is signed and dated by the artist.