Andy Smith (NC), Two Lidded Raku Pottery Vessels

Marshville, North Carolina, 1980s, wheel thrown raku and/or saggar fired ceramic, decorated in linear geometric patterned designs glazed in rose pink, turquoise, and bone white hues within a gray to muted violet field, the taller in ovoid urn form, the second in compressed ball form, both with incised potter's signature and date to the underside.

Tallest 8 in.; shorter 4 1/2 in.

A full-time potter for close to 40 years, Andy Smith studied ceramics at Wingate College in North Carolina in 1976, and also studied at the Arrowmont School of Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Andy has developed a style of raku pottery which uses traditional forms with highly controlled design elements.
Andy is an exhibiting member of the Carolina Designer Craftsmen’s Guild, and shows his work in galleries from the Virgin Islands to Boston, Massachusetts. Similar lidded vessels by Andy Smith are included in the Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection.

Good condition.