Sheila Blunt

ceramist

" Dragon "	" Pearly Spring Blush Thin Pitcher "
" Figures on Pot "	" Iron Oxide Teapot "
" Lean Cuisine Turren "	" Oribe and Robbins Large Bowl "
" Doubled-walled Pot "	" Pumpkin Bowl "
" Sable Covered Jar "	" Tall Covered Jar "
" Two Textured Vertigris Jars "	" Vertigris Cutout Bowl "

   Sheila Blunt is a painter and potter from Queens, New York whose pottery is characterized by sculpture, carving and other surface decoration.

   Ms. Blunt is a regular exhibitor in juried shows, many with the Alliance of Queens Artists of which she has served 4 terms as president. She has had work in the Cork Gallery, Lever House, the Federal Hall Museum, the Tompkins Square Park Library and the Weill Cornell Medical Library - all in Manhattan. She has also curated several of those exhibitions. Galleries in Queens and Long Island include J.B. Spoke, The Northwinds Coffee House Gallery (a one person show) and the Great Neck and Syosset Libraries.

   Originally from Pennsylvania, her Bachelor’s Degree is from Penn State and her Masters Degree from Pratt Institute - both in Art Education. She is retired from 38 years of teaching art in secondary schools in Nassau County.

   "Most of my pots are thrown on the wheel, and after trimming are subject to surface decoration of some kind before going into a high fire kiln. Many motifs I use in painting are carried over into my pottery - particularly female nudes. Mermaids, giraffes and dragons as well as abstract forms are a part of my artistic expression."

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