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Wayne Shadburne
Wayne Shadburne started studying Zoology at Stanford and ended up with a BFA in Sculpture from the
Pacific Northwest College of Art. Both influences show clearly in his work, the love of animals, and a feel for form.
His functional ceramics begin as sculptures. He created his own piece-molds, casts them in high fire stoneware clay,
details each one seperately, low-fires, glazes and handpaints them, and finally high-fires them. His feel for nature
is both respectful and light-hearted, whimsical but never cutesy.
He and his wife Marilyn, herself an accomplished glass artist, spent four years homesteading in the Canadian
wilderness in the company of a community of animals. They used a donkey for transportation, a goat and her kids
supplied them with milk, chickens gave them eggs, a cat acted as a mouser, and dogs were indispensible as bear-alarms.
Wayne says, "When your dogs howl with the wolves, you know you've slipped way back in time. The animals become family,
they each have their ways and their beauty, that's what I want to show in my work."
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