about
Charleen Stroud holds a MA(FA) in Ceramics. She was Professor of Fine Arts, lecturing Ceramics and Figure Drawing, in her home country, South Africa. She has extensive university as well as enrichment ceramics teaching experience.
After many years of living in rural BC, she has finally restarted her career and returned to creating beautiful works of art/craft.
She has exhibited internationally in Faenza (Italy), Vallauris (France), Mino (Japan), California (USA) and South Africa.
She generally works and teaches from her home studio in Kitsilano where she lives with her 2 bengal cats, Amber and Aurora.
She is currently creating embroidered ceramic vessels and earrings.
artist statement
Charleen has always had issues with the seemingly arbitrary nature of the art/craft devide and is interested in making work that is both functional and decorative while at the same time also being thought-provoking. Her love of all forms of making is a testament to her inspiring stonemason father and seamstress mother who made no distinction between the two.
She is at present making embroidered porcelain vessels and earrings so as to combine her love of clay with that of her love for textiles.
Her inspiration for all the decoration comes from photographs of her childhood and her youth and she has used the fabric patterns on her mothers dresses, her childhood dresses and her fathers ties as a jumping off point. They are not just arbitrary embroidered pieces.
