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Laurie Rolland

Laurie Rolland

Ceramics from Sechelt

The boat has become a metaphor for passage and transformation in my work.

Laurie Rolland

I have been a full time potter for over 45 years. I make hand-built vessel forms and fire my work in oxidation. There has been a natural progression in my work through the organic process-based approach that I use in my practice. “A thinking with one’s hands” forms a rich basis for idea development but besides technique and invention there is intent. Since 1997 I have used the boat, a feminine symbol of passage and transformation the world over, as a metaphor in my wor

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