Christine Pedersen
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Christine Pedersen
@metalisclay.bsky.social
Artist working in clay and metal, or skiving off on my bike, running, baking, gardening. Former career in public health policy, still trying to read all the science. A 🇬🇧 in 🇨🇦YYC.
https://christinepedersen.art
https://christinepedersen.blogspot.com
Landscape vessels in experimental mixes of coloured clays, all scrubbed up and ready to glaze. Doesn't matter how many times I do this to myself, it’s still completely nerve-wracking.

#ceramics #pottersofbluesky #clay #texture #stoneware #porcelain #ceramicvessel #landscapeceramics #ceramicartist
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Delighted to share that a collection of my ceramic vessels and vases is available from Willock and Sax Gallery in Banff, Alberta, and in their online store.
www.willockandsaxgallery.com/ceramic/chri...
#ceramics #porcelain #handmade #ceramicartist #pottersofbluesky #clayart #functionalware
October 20, 2025 at 4:59 AM
October 4, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Lovely meetup on Rotary park #Calgary for International #coffeeoutside day. Thank you @bikebikeyyc.bsky.social for bringing us together and 🍪, and to the wonderful Sought x Found Coffee Roasters for the high octane refuelling 🚴‍♀️☕️
October 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
🥧👀 #cherrypie time--finally! Had to get in quick: pig-birds and fat squirrels have scoffed nearly all the Evan’s cherries in the garden. We have three trees, loaded with fruit, and we got one pie. #Gluten-free almond/oat crust FTW, sorry it’s not scratch and sniff 😋
August 20, 2025 at 4:22 AM
May 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Unbelievably we scored front row seats--I’ll be plundering my hoard and wearing “One Becomes Many”, a Cornwall-inspired, traditional bronze and amethyst necklace. Made here in Calgary, though sadly I don’t know where the tin originated…
#artinscience #scienceinart #palaeontology #bronze #necklace
May 13, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Love how these functional #stoneware #pinchpot samples turned out--left unglazed so that the audience at my talk could really feel the shapes, and see the textures left behind...right down to the creases made by my skin.

#madeinaskutt #pinchypinchy #textureinclay #ceramics #madebyhand
April 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
A couple of blues.
My pinching process gives both of us--me, and the clay--time to develop our stories.

#upsalablue #porcelain #contemporaryporcelain #SIO2 #artiststudio #ceramics #womensart #pinchpots #contemporaryancient #handmade #calgary #slowdown #slowart
April 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Come hang with the Maker’s Dozen jewellers at #AlbertaCraftCouncil Calgary gallery: opening reception on April 26th, 2-4 pm, at cSpace, in Marda Loop ✨

"Strong Bonds" -Concrete & Graffiti Series
#makersdozenyyc #handmade #silver #jewelry #jewellery #canadianjewellery #womensart #yyc #artshow
April 13, 2025 at 3:35 AM
It’s really tough figuring out what goes in and what to leave out of an artist talk, I mean, I’ve basically got 25 years of homework to review since I was a studio member at North Mount Pleasant Arts Centre. Strap in! 💥😆
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#ceramics #canadianceramics #pinchpots #artisttalk #yyc #yycartist #vase
March 28, 2025 at 2:35 AM
🎶Intermission: small wood-fired pourer with a lovely ash-mossy shoulder. First bisque firing of 2025 underway, been a long wait for some days just above zero C. No pics of what went in the kiln—fingers crossed they survive…😅

#ceramics #pottersofbluesky #woodfired #pinchpot #vessel #plainsmanclay
March 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Excited to share I’ll be presenting an artist talk on March 28, 7pm, at my clay alma mater--the lovely North Mount Pleasant Art Centre, in Calgary. Hope to see you there!
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#artisttalk #ceramics #materiality #yycart #yycartist #handbuilding #pinchpots #canadianceramics #christinepedersenceramics
March 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
S l o w job--adding teensy bits of clay to create the modelled rim on a blue and white porcelain vessel (see last post). Inspired by the UN’s 2025 International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation.
#glaciers2025 #contemporaryporcelain #ceramics #ceramicvessel #albertaartist #canadianceramics
March 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
#WIP #Process isn't always pretty: one of the sculptural ceramics hiding under a heap of plastic in the last post. Full discussion in the ALT text.

#ceramics #art #sculpture #artist #artistatwork #artinprogress #Artworkflow #artiststudio #hands #clay #Creativeprocess #pottersofbluesky
February 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
My very tiny clay studio, in full flowy mess (more in the ALT text). That's the clay end--somehow metal-work happens in there too but not at the same time because only one pair of hands (annoyingly).

#pottersofbluesky #ceramics #texture #studiomess #Fridayfun #stoneware #vase #rawclay #texture
February 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Unpack pots right where you need to work on photography 🙄 --then move all the pots so everyone can get their moment in the spotlight. Older work, documenting/writing ahead of an upcoming talk.

#potshot #ceramics #pottersofbluesky #woodfired #woodfiredceramics #womenwhowoodfire #handbuilt #pinchpots
February 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Once upon a time I did quite a bit of wood-firing. It was bliss. I felt like my pots (and I) really benefited from atmospheric firings. Pulling out pots to update photography--might also be some muffled sobbing.

#ceramics #woodfire #womenwhowoodfire #handbuilt #vessel #wufar
January 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Musing about photographing ceramics, whilst sat on my numb butt writing applications. I learn so much about a piece by looking at it through the lens, in every kind of light.

#art #pottersofbluesky #porcelain #studioceramics #pinchpots #clay #ceramics #sculpture #sculpturalceramics
January 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Testing...learning how long a studio/phone video can be to limbo under the 50 Mb limit. Editing in iMovie, can't compress. This is 44s 🤞😬 (Tall footed porcelain vessel from an earlier post).
#pottersofbluesky #porcelain #ceramics #pinchpots #clay #pottery #handmade #artist #makervideo
January 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Hey #Calgary #Alberta #clay folks--my friend Pamma is presenting tonight at North Mount Pleasant Art Centre. See you there???

#pottersofbluesky
January 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I pinch clay. Pieces can be weeks in the making, coaxing and cultivating intense surface texture, revealing the inner life of the clay. #crunchy #porcelain #pinchpots #clay #bisque #oxidation #cone10 #canadianceramics
January 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Hello 2025! Slowly coming out of hibernation, glued to the laptop writing applications, next piece of porcelain drafted in my head, soooooo ready to get back in the studio 😋
January 23, 2025 at 10:17 PM
✋💎 💫 Infinity loops: big, bold, loop earrings, always changing with you ✨

Available. Closing reception for the @makersdozen_yyc earring show from 1-4pm on Saturday November 30th @sparrow.artspace. Hope to see you there!

#silver #handmadejewelry #yyc #artist
November 29, 2024 at 6:08 AM
✋💎 drinks@5! —the best email in any office work-day. These new earrings epitomize my dress code: you can get away with anything if you add a well-cut jacket, and glam earrings. Always kept a spare pair in my desk, right next to the painkillers and chocolate🍸💊🍫💖
#handmadejewelry #earrings #glam
November 27, 2024 at 4:53 AM