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Ken Foster has spent the last three decades creating hand painted utilitarian stoneware and porcelain in a wide range of forms and styles.  Ken has been a professional potter since the 1970s, and owns and operates Oakhurst Pottery, a small community pottery studio in the California foothills just south of Yosemite National Park.  Ken's utilitarian ceramics are inspired by  his desire to create works of art that are both beautiful and functional.  

Ken's desire to explore new ideas and techniques led him to the University of California at Fresno, where he received his MFA degree in 2005.  Ken's new work is bold in form and ambitious in scale, with some pieces as large as 7' tall.  Some of Foster's new works are a radical departure from his past experience, combining large scale vessels, geometric forms, and detailed hand drawn figurative elements.  

Others are more closely related to the artist's previous works, drawing on techniques, forms, and glazes developed over many years as a working potter.  In this vein, Foster has created a body of robust works inspired in part by day to day experience, and also by boyhood memories of salmon fishing  with his grandfather. 

 

 

 

 

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