|
My
ceramics teacher !
Maria Teresa Ronca at work on a new collection, November 2007.
Her creations sell in two stores in the Laurentians (St. Sauveur
and Ste. Adele) as well as at the Shane gallery in Town of Mount
Royal. Se also has many other customers and has to work
very hard to try to keep up with the orders. Stuff
disappears from her workshop even before it is fired...that is,
people come in and order.
The tables in her workshop
are full with green ready to be fired, painted bisque ready for
second firing, and upstairs in her painting studio, many items
awaiting painting.
|
Maria Teresa
just joined Route des Arts and has been my colleague in ARTS
Morin Heights for the past few years.
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. |
