Kathryne Koop

Kathryne Koop’s passion for pottery began over 50 years ago through a community clay class which inspired her to receive an an Honours degree in Fine Arts at the University of Manitoba in 1980. This launched a life long career as a full time potter. In 1981 she joined the Stoneware Gallery, and the Stoneware Studio and has been integrally active in both ever since. Over the years she has received several prestigious awards, been in numerous exhibitions, given workshops across Canada, and had her work purchased for many private and public collections. The Stoneware Gallery has been instrumental in providing a permanent location where her work is always on display and available to the public for purchase. Working with porcelain clay, Koop explores endless approaches to familiar objects that balance aesthetics with both form and function. She creates unique pieces of pottery that combine elegance with gesture, making them as desirable to display as they are to use. Each piece is wheel thrown, glazed with multiple layers of colour and fired in the gas reduction kiln at the Stoneware Studio.