George LeMaitre

Yerington, Nevada

Title: West African Rabbit Vase

Year of Creation: 2007

Glaze: 05 low fire

Clay Body: Elf White from Leslie Ceramic Supply Company

Dimensions: Height 26 inches, Width 15 inches

Artist's Statement: All my shapes and glaze patterns come from traditional pottery styles. My interest is in taking classic forms and reinterpreting them with my own aesthetic values. I'm especially interested in the vessel form with all of its symbolic connotations to life, birth, water...