Environmental Sgraffito Art in Porcelain by Tim Christensen Contemporary Nature-inspired Ceramic Dory Midcoast Maine Artisan Store The Good Supply Pemaquid Made in USA
  • Environmental Sgraffito Art in Porcelain by Tim Christensen Contemporary Nature-inspired Ceramic Dory Midcoast Maine Artisan Store The Good Supply Pemaquid Made in USA
  • Environmental Sgraffito Art in Porcelain by Tim Christensen Contemporary Nature-inspired Ceramic Dory Midcoast Maine Artisan Store The Good Supply Pemaquid Made in USA
  • Environmental Sgraffito Art in Porcelain by Tim Christensen Contemporary Nature-inspired Ceramic Dory Midcoast Maine Artisan Store The Good Supply Pemaquid Made in USA
  • Environmental Sgraffito Art in Porcelain by Tim Christensen Contemporary Nature-inspired Ceramic Dory Midcoast Maine Artisan Store The Good Supply Pemaquid Made in USA
  • Environmental Sgraffito Art in Porcelain by Tim Christensen Contemporary Nature-inspired Ceramic Dory Midcoast Maine Artisan Store The Good Supply Pemaquid Made in USA
  • $700.00

With the longest coastline in the lower forty-eight, 6,000 lakes, and over 32,000 miles of running water, it only makes sense the Maine is known for a history steeped in boatbuilding. From Old Town canoes to the steel giants of Bath Iron Works, hand-crafted skiffs at The Carpenter’s Boat Shop to industrious tugs built by Washburn and Doughty. It’s fair to say we love our boats.

Aside from contributing to the economy, Maine’s boating tradition helps us connect in unique ways with the natural world. Tuck into a hidden cove, find a group of stripers under a bridge, paddle out to camp on an island surrounded by loon song. The possibilities for beautiful adventure are just a few oar strokes away.

Dory by Tim Christensen can remind you love of a good drift even when the streams are frozen over. The traditional style canoe is formed in porcelain and wood fired. Sgraffito patterns of waving current and tiny air bubbles dance along the underside while a lone salmon lays across the center yoke.

Keep your paddle handy, the streams always thaw.

- Measures 11.75" x 4" x 2.25"
- Wood-fired porcelain
- Sgraffito

Ceramic artist Tim Christensen divides his time between Portland and Downeast Maine. At his off-grid studio Tim finds inspiration for his porcelain pieces. Schools of herring, flocks of chattering songbirds, and all matter of sea life are skillfully carved on the surfaces of his hand-thrown and constructed forms.

Tim began working in clay in 1999, and he has been etching his black and white pieces since 2004. Using the centuries-old decorative technique of Sgraffito, Tim carves intricate worlds teeming with life and energy. Firing much of his work at Watershed Center for Ceramic Art in Newcastle, Maine, Tim finds that the collaborative Midcoast institution's salt- and wood-fire kilns add variety and allow for the possibility of happy accidents, which are common in the ceramic world and offer welcome play on the artist's meticulous carvings.

Tim has shown his work around the world and recently completed his first book. Written with co-author Carri Lange, “Reflect, Adapt, and Persevere” he tells of his travels and thoughts on environmental philosophy.

From the Artist:

My work is about the ever-changing web of relationships that surround us. Individuals make contact to create relationships, relationships collide to create systems. These systems change over time in response to the other systems around them. I envision my world as an infinite collection of active counterparts, individuals symbiotically wriggling and moving and jostling for space and resources.

In this sea of systems, of relationships, I sit and try to untangle it, sit and try to communicate what I see changing, being created, or disappearing into the past.

This is why I work in our most durable medium, porcelain, and in our longest unbroken historical record, pottery. My work, functional in the information I convey, will be understandable to anyone with an eyeball and the ability to think abstractly.

My goal is to make work which still speaks clearly in 10,000 years, and more importantly, to convey the complexity and richness of the world in which I am most fortunate to live.

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