Artisans' Guild Gallery

A source for handmade art and gifts by Gainesville area artists since 1970

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Feral Wilcox

Pottery

Artist Statement

I am a multi-disciplinary artist working in mediums that begin with P:  pottery, poetry, piano, and pen-and-ink.  In all of these, I'm most interested in pattern.  In ceramic art, this has led me to work with tile mosaic, and in three-dimensional pieces, to explore surface design and texture.  While I greatly admire elegant form and simplicity in pottery, I am of the "more is more" aesthetic school.  I spent 7 years in exile in the northeast where I found the nature to be far too orderly; trees grew in perfect cones and were spaced too perfectly in even the wildest woods.  I returned to my native Florida, where nature calls me to fill in every possible vacant space with abandon and enthusiasm.  But if I need a break from my obsession with pattern, I return to an old favorite in clay, the pinch pot, also beginning with P.

Artisans' Guild Gallery  •  Millhopper Square Shopping Center  •  4201 NW 16th Blvd.  •  Gainesville, FL  32605

Phone:  352.378.1383  •  Gallery Hours:  10 AM to 7 PM Monday through Saturday, 12 noon to 5 PM Sunday