Designer Desire: Ed Drahanchuk

Montage of Ed Drahanchuk ceramic designs

Ed Drahanchuk (b.1938) is a Canadian ceramic artist who has been creating pieces in his own studio in the tiny hamlet of Bragg Creek since the early 1960s. Born in Calgary, he attended Alberta College of Art and currently resides on Quadra Island.

He has been given a number of public and private, large-scale ceramic mural commissions. They include Rhythm One (1970) at the University of Calgary; Alberta Foothills Morning (1970) for the Municipal District of Rocky View (shown at the top of the montage, above); Fossil Theme (1973) at the University of Calgary; United News Building, Calgary; Hudson Bay Oil & Gas, Calgary and Mercantile Bank of Canada in Edmonton.

Drahanchuk was the recipient of the Canadian Design of Merit Citation, Craft Award given by the National Design Council in 1974.

During the 1980s, Ed Drahanchuk switched from pottery to painting; however, he has recently recommenced working with clay.

Find examples of his (small) works for sale on Etsy and eBay.

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Designer Desire: Katrin Moye

Mosaic of Katrin Moye designs | H is for Home

We met Katrin Moye when she was exhibiting at The British Craft Trade Fair in Harrogate when we (and she) were just starting out about a decade ago. We can’t believe that we haven’t featured her work on our blog before.

We fell in love at first sight with her folk art, Scandinavian-inspired slipware ceramics. We wanted to stock her work but she told us that she was already booked up with orders for the next year!

She doesn’t have a huge output as all her work is handmade and, as you can see, the decorative detailing is painstaking. If you’re interested in buying her work some of her limited-edition prints can be bought on Made By Hand online or you can contact her via her Facebook page for orders or commissions.

She exhibits regularly (she’ll be at The Contemporary Craft Festival in Bovey Tracey in June) where she sells her work. In May, she begins an artist-in-residence programme at Nottingham Lakeside Arts where she’ll be running workshops.

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Ainscough Contemporary Art |Made by Hand Online |