Debra Bryan

Debra Bryan

These large sculptures are hand built with clay slabs. They are fired to cone 06. The surface decoration is a very fine particle clay slip called terra sigillata and then some parts are  are glazed.

In 1992 I began working with clay. My education includes:  Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver, Red Deer College-Summer series and the University of Alberta.

I always read a great deal and and I am constantly learning  and  testing clay and glaze materials. I enjoy pushing the boundaries of ceramic arts. The glazes that you see on the sculptures and teapots are mostly my own creation.

I have had many gallery shows and have sold my work commercially across Canada. In 2002 I began making custom hand made tiles and I also began teaching artist in residence programs with funding from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts-Artist in Education program.

Hand made tiles

These sculptural teapots and cookie jars are fired to cone 6. The glazes are mostly my own invention. They are all hand built with clay slabs.

Crocodile cookie jar.

Sculptures from top to bottom:

Destiny, Frog Man, Niad.

Sculptures from top to bottom: Baba Yaga, Herne the Hunted, There was an old woman who swallowed a fly.

Lydia and the seven swans lamp.

image list from bottom left going clockwise: Elephant teapot, Pod teapot, Devil teapot, Squash teapot, Crab teapot Big Horn teapot, Armadillo cookie jar, Moose teapot, Bird Jug.

image list from bottom left going clockwise: Warthog sculpture, There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, Turtle woman, Dragonfly Lamp, Rhino sculpture, The Third Little Pig's House Kaleidoscope, Dragon.