Puff Pot from the collection of Temiskaming Art Gallery

This is one of a series of Puff Pots created in the mid 90’s. The inspiration comes from the puff ball mushroom. Through its life cycle it experiences stages of growth, tension and finally explosion to release its fruit (spores). This open vessel suggests the offering of its fruit. Hand-built pottery was always more exciting to me than wheel thrown. I always enjoy the challenge of controlling unregulated movement and intentions of the clay.

About the artist

Bonnie Adams

Bonnie Adams (formerly Seigel) is a potter and physiotherapist. She also works in the media of photography, paint, drawing and sculpture and likes to do various arts and crafts projects. Her ceramic pieces in the TAG collection show a wide range of style - the contemplative simple lines of the boy reading compared with the plasticity of the clay vessel. She has been working in the health field and the art field, combining them in unique ways. She works with both children and adults as a teacher and physiotherapist.
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She keeps herself busy outdoors by skiing, hiking and canoeing. Besides her Bachelors of Science in Physiotherapy, she has taken college art courses at Canadore.
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She has owned her own wholesale and retail clay jewelery manufacturing business called Woodland Spirit. Through her travels with her husband, Bonnie Anne has participated and volunteered in many arts community projects.
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Bonnie shared some of her thoughts on being an artist in northern Ontario saying; "The beauty, strength and rugged solitude here makes one reflect on nature, family and God with a respect that city folk may not be able to experience…." -Bonnie Adams.

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Bonnie Adams (nee Seigel) est céramiste et physiothérapeute. Elle fait aussi de la photographie, de la peinture, du dessin et de la sculpture, sans compter mille et un projets d’artisanat artistique. Ses céramiques de la collection de la GAT dévoilent une grande variété de styles — à comparer la simplicité de lignes du garçon en train de lire avec la plasticité du récipient de grès. Elle a su combiner de manière unique son travail dans le domaine de la santé avec sa production artistique. Elle travaille aussi bien avec les enfants que les adultes en qualité de formatrice et de physiothérapeute.
Elle raffole d’activités en plein air comme le ski, le canot et les excursions à pied. Détentrice d’un baccalauréat ès sciences en physiothérapie, elle a suivi des courts d’art à Canadore.
Elle a géré une petite entreprise de fabrication de bijoux de grès nommée Woodland Spirit. Dans ses voyages avec son mari, Bonnie Anne a participé bénévolement à plusieurs projets artistiques communautaires.