Dale Lerner, Medicine Hat
Dale has a diploma in visual communications from Medicine Hat College. He started his keen interest in ceramics as a truck driver, hauling raw clay from quarries in the Cypress Hills and other parts of southern Alberta and Saskatchewan to local brick, tile and clay processing factories. In 1995, he discovered the work of four eccentric 19th century British potters, the Martin brothers (Martinware Pottery). The Martins specialized in hand-built vessels and objects with gargoylese images, often birds, in a Gothic-revival style. Fast forward a century, Dale now imagines bird-like critters that might have migrated from the ceramics factories of England to the prairie clay pits of Alberta, perhaps reflecting the extensive industrial and studio pottery connections between the British midlands and Alberta. Dale’s work has been exhibited throughout southern Alberta and as far as Brooklyn, Toronto and Wyoming.

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