Invited Guest

Louise Pentz

Louise developed her smoke fired pottery techniques out of her thirty year career as a production potter in Pentz, Nova Scotia.

A graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, she has also studied at the University of Regina, the Metchosin School of the Arts in B.C., the Instituto da San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and in Phoenix, Arizona. She has traveled throughout Europe, the Middle East and Japan studying their various ceramic forms and techniques. Louise taught in the NS school system for a number of years.

Her work has been exhibited in both public and commercial galleries across Canada and in France, and her awards include grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Nova Scotia Creations Grants and a People’s Choice Award at the Leighton Art Centre in Calgary, Alta., and the Mary E. Black Gallery in Halifax, NS.

Publications which have featured her work include Ceramics Monthly, Fusion Magazine, the Crafts Report and Robin Hopper’s Making Marks: Discovering the ceramic surface. A review, by Gloria Hickey, of her 2010 sculpture exhibition at the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery appeared in issue #83 of Ceramics: Art and Perception magazine. Studio Craft and Design Magazine reviewed her exhibition entitled “Restrained” in 2013.

Her pots and figures form part of the collections of The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, The Burlington Art Gallery and the Consciel General de Puy de Dome, in Clairemont-Ferrand, France, and in the collections of the AGNS and StFX University.