Evamarie Pappas-Oglander studied drawing and painting at the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida. She is a graphic designer, self-taught potter/sculptor and mentor to the Oglander "boys."
Evamarie is strongly influenced by pottery from antiquity, especially Minoan and early Greek. Her sculptural vessels are thrown, coiled, altered, incised, cut apart and reassembled using mastic and grout and sometimes gold or silver leaf or a touch of paint.
The glaze firing uses the raku process of removing the piece from the kiln while it is still glowing red and nearly 2000 degrees Fahrenheit. This causes the glaze (and sometimes the pot) to crack. It is then put into a reduction chamber containing pine needles and sawdust where the cracks in the glaze absorb carbon and turn black. "It's dangerous -- quite an adrenaline rush -- with amazing and often unexpected results." |
