Regina Wickham

I belong to the tradition of vessel makers. I work in clay, on the wheel, forming containers for flowers, food, air. Clay is the skin to contain a volume, the line to draw a profile. I think of long tall vessels as forms that stand as a person, defining and incorporating space. I feel a kinship with Chinese ceramics and like to sketch vases to understand the success of their curves, the space they envelop and the space they exclude. I think of platters as canvas for color and, with their concave shape, as holders of volumes beyond themselves as the line they begin to define is completed in the mind. I think of glazing as painting, as landscape, seascape, night sky. I layer and juxtapose color and texture, incorporating the breaking-up effects of glaze on glaze, working with or against the geometry of wheel thrown pieces. I fire to cone 10 reduction. There are the surprises in the final piece – subtleties of proportion, stance, interaction of color and object, serendipitous melding of glaze, oxide and flame pattern. And always there is the tradition of the gifts of the kiln.

I have shown my work in various venues on the east coast, including Gallery 668 NY;  Gilmor Glass, Millerton, NY; Shelter Island Potters NY; Gallery 100 NY; erl Originals NC; Show of Hands, PA; Nikos Designs, Tarrytown; Newport Potters Guild RI; Valley Artisans Market NY; Cross MacKenzie, Washington, D.C., Landscapes for Landsakes NY; 3 Pears VT as well as Mugi and Soho Potters in New York City. My work has been exhibited in the Strictly Functional Exhibit, PA.  I have participated in Open Studios of Washington County and Cambridge Valley Fine Art Tour.  I have had pop up exhibits at various New York City location Including West Elm Chelsea and West Elm Broadway.