Artist Details
Gail Carlson
Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
As a small child, mud puddles held a forthcoming intuitiveness. By the age of ten years, Gail was a potter, by fourteen, a pottery teacher. To this day she loves the mud-puddle sensation of wiping her clay-covered hands on her jeans.
Gail grew up in an artistic family where the opportunity to express visually was encouraged and supported. Her father, a professional architect, filled Gail's world with architectural, structural and sculptural foundations seen now throughout her hand-built and carved pottery. Her mother, a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree graduate, encouraged creativity. Often the dining and living rooms of Gail's childhood home looked more like studios, alive with ongoing creative art projects. In the late sixties, Gail's mother taught pottery at the Prince Albert Art Centre in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. This became Gail's second home and the beginnings of her life-long journey as a potter, teacher and sculptor.
During her art studies at the University of Saskatchewan in her earier years, Gail was a natural with hand building and sculptural forms.Today, Gail Carlson is one of Saskatchewan's recognized professional potters specializing in both production fuctional pottery and her hand-built one-of-a-kind pieces. Passion, love of form, play of light and creative expression flow naturally in her bold, colourful and mono-chromatic acrylic paintings.
