Cheryl Thomas

Cheryl Thomas is a ceramist who makes hand-coiled porcelain vessels. At first glance these forms look like they are made out of a fiber material. Cheryl works in a simplified palette of black and white. Her vessels seem to take on a life of there own when she forms them. They resemble collapsed baskets, and they are made out of porcelain. The artist assembles these vessels with care, coiling each tiny rope of porcelain into thin walls. With the containers first being balanced, she fires them in the kiln where they collapse into unpredictable forms. Cheryl then takes these collapsed forms and matches them up and puts them in for re-firing. Cheryl creates these sculptures for the chance of the out come… “ My sculptures are created by marriage of design and accident.” Cheryl creates a ancient but modern look to these vessels.