MARLA BENTON

Title: Juniper, Bees & Birds Flower Brick

Dimensions: 15” X 4.5” X 2.25”

Medium: White earthenware, underglaze, glaze

Date Made: April 2019

Retail Price: $300

Artist’s Statement (meaning/inspiration, etc.): Spring brings our senses back to life.  The birds start to sing in the early morning, the land turns from brown to green, and the flowers start to grow.  Finally, the bees come back and complete the signs of the changing seasons.  The flower brick enables us to bring the spring inside to enjoy.  White earthenware, fired to cone 04 bisque, and glaze 06, electric fired.

MARLA BENTON

Title: Flower Vase: Juniper, Birds & Bees

Dimensions: 9.25” X 5.5” X 5.5”

Medium: white earthenware, glaze, underglaze

Date Made: June 2019

Retail Price: $195

Artist’s Statement (meaning/inspiration, etc.): Spring brings our senses back to life.  The birds start to sing in the early morning, the land turns from brown to green, and the flowers start to grow.  Finally, the bees come back and complete the signs of the changing seasons.  The flower vase enables us to bring the spring inside to enjoy.  White earthenware, fired to cone 04 bisque, and glaze 06, electric fired.

Marla Benton is a clay artist and educator living and working from her studio in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia.  She lives with her non-artist husband, daughter and two cats.  She holds degrees from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, the Ontario College of Art and Design (BFA), and Nipissing University (BEd).  Her work has been published in the USA in American Craft and within Canada, in Studio Magazine, The Canmore Leader, Yukon Arts Magazine, and the Chronicle Herald NS. 

Though her primary medium is clay, Benton has experience in printmaking, weaving, jewelry, metal, and woodworking.