While Sharon Fiske the owner and operator of Clayworks, which has been a highly productive Nova Scotia pottery employing other potters and running a retail location in Bedford for several decades, there is a Prince Edward Island connection.
Sharon began her pottery career on Prince Edward Island as a pottery student of Ron Arvidson at Holland College School of Visual Arts in the late 1970s. It was during her PEI years that she signed her student work with "Sharon Fiske PEI" and the year.
Sharon continues in 2022 to operate Clayworks but rather than a large production studio with staff that she had previously employed it has become a home-based studio of her own one-of-a-kind artistic efforts. The website of the Nova Scotia Potters Guild states:
Sharon Fiske
CLAYWORKS LIMITED
Halifax, NS
My life as a potter over the past thirty years has taken me around the world: Asia-Pacific, Europe and throughout North America. These experiences have exposed me to people and places that have been influential in my development as a production potter and my growth as a ceramic artist. I have established a diverse body of work that attracts the interest of both art enthusiasts and people seeking functional production ware. I have produced one-of-a-kind pieces that are often humorous, colorful, and accented with sculptural details or thrown, expressing delightful animated forms.
Clay is totally controllable yet so unpredictable. These extremes only fuel my imagination and desire to challenge its characteristics. Such is the way of an artist. I chose clay.
I have transitioned to a home studio and I will concentrate on one-of-a-kind pieces. Commissioned work will be entertained.
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| Sharon Fiske - from Nova Scotia Potters Guild website https://nspotters.com/sharon-fiske |
Sharon Fiske-Muise
2751 Robert Murphy Drive
Halifax, Nova ScotiaB3L 3T3
H - 902 453-0210 C - 902 471-8429
Home studio, call ahead
Email: sharonfiske@gmail.com
Website: http://www.clayworks.ca
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| Pottery bean crock by Sharon Fiske while student on PEI in 1978 Photo credit and pottery from the collection of, Betty Lou Frizzell Abbott |
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| Pottery bean crock by Sharon Fiske while student on PEI in 1978 Photo credit and pottery from the collection of, Betty Lou Frizzell Abbott |
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| Pottery bean crock by Sharon Fiske while student on PEI in 1978 Photo credit and pottery from the collection of, Betty Lou Frizzell Abbott |
