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<h1>John Ikeda</h1>
				
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<p>John Ikeda is a ceramicist.</p>

<h1>Artist Statement</h1>

i&nbsp;could have been born a wild colonial boy from W.0. Mitchell&nbsp;running through the wind of the barren desolate prairies.

Instead,&nbsp;i&nbsp;was born a Japanese Canadian. my family of origin and emotional landscape is a memory of manual labour in the sugar beet fields of Lethbridge, Alberta. it was only until university days through formal education or perhaps more specifically an&nbsp;informal unconventional education through the colloquium studies Fine Arts B.A. program. through independent studies of the arts and psychology,&nbsp;i&nbsp;developed a language of understanding from a personal perspective of the influences within and upon my life and career.

i&nbsp;was torn between a career in academia or the studio.&nbsp;i&nbsp;chose the latter pursuing the romance of becoming a potter-artist pioneering the bucolic lifestyle with the promise of independence, self-reliance, autonomy. all of my professors were&nbsp;american. at that time culturally were all the arts of cinema, literature, music, and television.&nbsp;&nbsp;i&nbsp;felt an immediate connection to Van Gogh, the Impressionists and New York 70s abstraction minimalists.&nbsp;i was also drawn to an innate cultural understanding of Japanese ceramics and&nbsp;zen&nbsp;buddhism – a strange polarization of cultural influences and a perfect example of the ‘New Canadian’ story.

i&nbsp;established my first studio in Lethbridge working in gas fired stoneware porcelain for 7 years. after a divorce,&nbsp;i&nbsp;undertook a sessional lecture teaching position for one term at john&nbsp;abbott&nbsp;college in Montreal.

i&nbsp;established my current studio in St.&nbsp;Bernardin,&nbsp;Ontario in 1978.&nbsp; it is my full time studio residence and hobby farm of 40 years, a childhood dream fulfilled.

the recession of 1981-82 forced a creative change in approach to my work.&nbsp;i&nbsp;began exploring developing techniques within low fire white earthenware, employing vibrant colour relationships of lyrical abstraction.

in future,&nbsp;i&nbsp;wish to diminish work upon deliberate surface manipulation decoration; to change technology yet again to wood-fire and the unembellished surface reliant upon the primordial forces of nature and fire. despite differing approaches over the years my aesthetic intent has remained constant which is&nbsp;to appreciate my 5 year old soul, the beauty of nature, the visual and emotional landscape through my continued exploration of ceramic murals, modern pottery, and ancient Japanese tea bowls.

– May 24, 2017
						
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