Tanya Atkinson

Tanya Atkinson is a ceramic/mixed media artist based in Toronto working from her studio which she established in 2011. Her formal education in Geography/Environment influences her artwork reflecting a love and passion for nature resulting in wildlife sculpture as well as in organic forms of her abstracts. She specializes in ceramic sculpture using the Raku as well as traditional oxidation firing techniques. She works in stoneware, porcelain and paper clay often leaving sculpture unglazed to preserve clay texture and use glaze for highlights only. Lately, she began working with recycled glass. Among other work she creates ceramic polar bear sculptures and mounts them on fused glass ice floes. She hopes her work will increase awareness of the potential extinction of polar bears due to global climate change and help to preserve this iconic species.