Photography courtesy of the Artist.
Mariko Paterson has been around the ceramic block. Born and raised in Vancouver, she skedaddled after a stint at Langara College to pursue a degree at the Alberta College of Art in Calgary and then Kent State University to complete her MFA degree. While she has also made New York, Michigan, Ohio, Manitoba, and Nova Scotia as just some of the points of her professional pursuits, Calgary, Alberta, once again, serves as her ceramic headquarters. Forage Studios now strives to produce a subversive strain of ceramic work and a decal production service. Historical meets handbuilding where her sculptural interests lay and a dalliance with the pottery wheel has resulted in both forms and a forum for exploring her love of creamy cone 6 clay bodies and illustration.
