Heather Dahl is a ceramic artist and painter working in Vancouver and Yarrow, BC. After graduating from Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design in 2001, Dahl took a self-employment program and launched Dahlhaus Art Studios in 2007. Her ceramic collections have been sold through retailers like Anthropologie, West Elm and Nordstroms, small retailers and galleries both locally and abroad. Her work has been included in several publications, including in the Encyclopedia of Curiosity; Ceramics, by Uppercase Magazine. Known for her love of colour, design, pattern, interest in Architecture and Mid-Century Design, Dahl is often developing new surface techniques for her ceramic collections. In 2022 she received a Canada Council for the Arts Grant to take part in a Residency Program at PADA, in Lisbon, Portugal. She is currently a Sessional Instructor at the Emily Carr University of Art & Design and maintains a studio practice at the Mergatroid Building in Vancouver.
For the meeting, Heather will demonstrate a mono-printing and screen-printing process using a ceramic ink she developed especially for screen-printing or designs using stencils. Transferring the designs is a lot like collage, so she will demonstrate both using a slip transfer onto leather hard pots and also transferring the designs onto vertical forms still on the wheel. Everyone will go home with a screen-printed patterns on paper to mono-print and test out on their own pots should they choose.
For more on Heather, please see her website here.
Heather Dahl
Cups by Heather Dahl using her printing techniques