Steve Irvine

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"Pottery has always been more to me than just a way to earn a living.
Clay is an instrument of understanding -- a way to look for meaning,
truth and harmony in my life."

"The low tech, intuitive nature of pinhole camera photography opens up
many creative possibilities. The cameras are homemade, and when
standardized photographic materials such as film are used, they are
often used in non-standardized ways. The exposures are often quite
long, even in full sunlight, so the passage of time itself seems to be
a participant in the image making - shadows move, leaves flutter and
the landscape changes. With pinhole photography, it's not so much a
matter of taking a picture, it's more like collecting photons and then
seeing what the collection looks like."

I am mostly self taught, but I also spent three years as a ceramics major at Sheridan College School of Crafts and Design, in Mississauga, Ontario. In 1974, my wife Joan and I moved into an old country church on the Bruce Peninsula and I set up my pottery studio. I sell mostly on a wholesale basis to shops and galleries in Southern Ontario and I'm also a member of the Owen Sound Artists' Co-op, which is a retail arts outlet run co-operatively by about 40 artists in the region.

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