Greetings from Vancouver, Canada!

I want to firstly take this opportunity to thank Emma for asking me to guest blog here. It's an honour and I look forward to bringing a Canadian twist to things for the next week! I am a graphic designer here on the west coast of Canada and I like to blog mostly for inspiration and to stay fresh and current in the design realm. I post about art, papergoods, home decor, photography and the odd bit of street art. Mostly of things that really strike a chord.

So to start the week off I am going to introduce a Canadian ceramic artist, Rebecca Robbins. Her work reminds me of quilt work in a sense, patches of different designs and colours or slabs as she puts it. With almost a street art feel to it, her pieces are a collage of images, words, texture and design. As she states on her website, "The aesthetic and social expectations inherent in domestic objects and in domestic responsibilities are largely the subject of my work. The slab built forms are covered in images transferred from external and internal collections.
Any meaning is oblique - patched together from surface details and filtered through someone else's experiences. Like collage and graffiti, messages are coded in layering and often left ambiguous."