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Carol Smeraldo
Carol Smeraldo
A Search through Myths, Metaphors, Motifs, Mystery and Mud.
An exploration of the mysterious and cyclical nature of the creative cycle has fascinated and inspired me for the past 12 years of my 42 year career in clay. I expressed my impressions of the first stage of this cycle in large once fired porcelain vessels. Then by chance I reconnected with Raku firing which turned out to be the perfect way to express the second stage of the cycle, the seemingly downside-at once dark and lustrous. Early on in my study of the creative cycle, it merged with the Greco-Roman myth of Demeter and Persephone, the metaphor of the oyster producing the pearl and motifs from my life long connection to the ocean.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
Carol Smeraldo attended Rhode Island School Of Design, Massachusetts College of Art and NSCAD Univ. She received the first NS Cultural Life Award and the Progress Club of Canada’s Women of Excellence Award in Arts and Culture. She helped found NS Designer Crafts Council and is a past president and Chair of Standards as well as an Honourary Member and is designated as a Master Artisan. She founded and directed the Halifax Studio School of Pottery, One Off Studio Pottery and developed the school at Atlantic Pottery Supplies where she was Head Instructor for over 10 years. Smeraldo has been a full time clay artist and potter since 1972.
Her work is included in public and private collections in Canada, USA, England and Japan including the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and Mount St. Vincent University. She has participated in many solo and group exhibitions and received grants and awards in Canada and the USA. Carol’s work has been featured in magazines and books including Studio Ceramics in Canada by Gail Crawford, Ceramics Monthly, June 2008, the Potters Council Raku Calendars 2010 and 2012 and Lark Books’ 500 Raku.
Carol Smeraldo
SJI40 “Connection in Unknown Territory”
Porcelain
(Stretched slab, carved, impressed, scrafittoed, sprayed)
Pair of sculptures 19x 36 cm, and 20 x 33 cm
$900/pair
Carol Smeraldo
183R “Mystery Diver 1”
Carved lidded vessel with porcelain finial
29 x 17.8cm (4 sections)
$300