Throughout this month, the work of local ceramic artist Heather Cauldwell will be displayed (and for sale) in the Nina Heald Webber cases.
Heather is a ceramic artist living and working on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, USA. She began her journey into the world of clay in January of 2020, two months prior to the COVID global shutdown. Like so many others, she found solace in not only gardening and pottery, but the forests and beaches so abundant around her. She creates forms that are unique, but feel familiar, echoing the shapes of flower pods, seed pods, sea shells, egg casings, wasp nests, bird nests, etc. She is fascinated by the sturdy carapaces left behind in the winter that once held space for fragile bits that summer. What remains are stunning architectural structures that are both sturdy and fragile, fascinating and complicated. Her pieces make connections between the living and the dead, negative and positive space, light and dark, inside and outside. She hand builds all her work, in her studio in Cataumet MA, where she is a Resident Artist at Meetinghouse Clay Center. She works in Cone 6 at her studio, and also fires at the Chris Gustin wood kiln in South Dartmouth, MA