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Walter Dexter, plate with grey-violet brush stroke design, 11.25 inches dia ( 28.5 cm dia)

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Walter Dexter is one of Canada’s most celebrated ceramic artists with a varied range of production and an extensive exhibition history.  Graduating from the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art (later Alberta College of Art) in 1954, he spent the next year at the Swedish School of Arts and Crafts. Between the mid-50s and 1963, he worked in Alberta as a pottery instructor, a production potter at Ceramic Arts, and production manager at Sunburst Ceramics.

From 1963 to 1967, he set up his studio in Kelowna, BC. Pottery from this period is the only work in his 50 year career in BC which is consistently marked with the location of his studio. Hence, pottery marked Kelowna is from this 4 year period. Between 1967 and 1974 he was in charge of the ceramics program at the Kootenay School of Art  in Nelson, BC, where he taught Robin Righton, Linda Mackie, and Ted Driediger, among others. In the mid-70s Dexter taught at Langara College and was president of the Craft Association of BC.  He received the Saidye Bronfman Award in 1992. He moved to Victoria in 1978, where, until his death in 2015, he produced the raku and large Torso vases for which he is so well-known.