Karina Bates • Horus Eye Pottery
Karina has been an active potter for over 15 years and recently took the plunge into working full-time in her studio. Her work is strongly influenced by medieval, and especially middle eastern designs and ornamentation. She also very much enjoys making reproduction pottery for the re-enactment community. Making functional work that is also art is what inspires her creations. Working with brush, carving tools and slip trailers; all clay is her canvas.
In 2016, Karina participated in the Fusion Mentorship program under Michelle Mendlowitz, and in 2018, she had the enviable opportunity to travel to Icheon, Korea with five other members of the Kawartha Potters’ Guild, to learn techniques from Korean pottery masters. Also in 2018, Karina was accepted into the KPG Juried show at the Peterborough Art Gallery and was honoured to win the Design Award from Angelo di Petta.
Karina regularly teaches at the Kawartha Potters Guild and you can find her work in their Pottery Shop. She is a participant in the annual Victoria County Studio Tour each year. When she is not in her pottery studio, Karina is part of two musical groups; Hardwood Cat and Hurly Burly, is an avid knitter, reader and gardener.
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