Maria Teresa, with Marie-Thérèse Lacroix at the ARTS Morin Heights Vernissage July 2007.

Maria Teresa at her booth ARTS Morin Heights Vernissage, July 2006.  Since she has joined ARTS Morin Heights, a star was born.  She is very popular with the public and is contributing a lot to the administration and managing the annual exhibition.

Vases, bowls, decanters, candle holders, salt & pepper shakers, Parmesan Cheese shaker, Lamps with shades painted by hand, and paintings with clay flowers affixed on them are included in her display.

Maria Teresa particularly likes to work with white clay, which she rolls out and forms/moulds by hand, makes impressions with lace and then paints and writes on the pieces, sometimes poetry verses and sometimes little poems she writes herslef.

Some of the orders she receives are still for ceramics done from moulds....however, no mould stays the same after Maria Teresa put her hands on it, it is totally transformed and sculpted on.

As you can see from the rims of the bowl, the clay is very thin.

The flowers Maria Teresa sculpts and affixes to her bowls, plates vases, candle holders etc., are very dainty and fragile.

A collection of heart-shaped hangers ready to go to the kiln.

This particular bowl is made of pink (red) clay.

   

A giant bowl that the customer asked to transform into a lamp shade. 

Maria Teresa also makes beautiful Floor Cloths, some of which are rather large.