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Alana

@alanamar-arts.bsky.social
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Multidisciplinary artist and educator with a love for painting and ceramics.🇨🇦 linktr.ee/alanamar.arts

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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Process video for my art installation: Interconnected Isolation, Series 1 artcomp.awardsplatform.com #30secondreel #creative #slipcasting #processvideo #ceramics #clay #decorating #underglazes #blackline #interconnectedisolation #lovepottery #series #exhibition #artsofinstagram #alanamar_arts
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The lighting in a space is always interesting. The beauty of seeing art in person: it shifts with the light, the space, the moment. Each viewing offers a new experience. artcomp.awardsplatform.com #exhibition #art #canadianartist #canadianart #ceramics #colour #connection
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Happy Pride! #pride #rainbow #diversity #inclusion #equity #closeupshot #bowlinterior #linedesign
Abstract colourful lines following the order of the rainbow. This was painted on the inside of a bowl and the picture is a close up of the line work.
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Lorraine Turner calicohorses @lorraineturnerart.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Hi Alana, Welcome to the crew! Please continue to post your beautiful art…check in here and follow whomever you wish and please SHARE this link go.bsky.app/KovnTwE
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
I'm truly honoured to be included among 100 talented artists in this amazing show. If you feel inspired, I’d be so grateful if you shared this link and cast a vote for me. Your support means the world. Thank you! artcomp.awardsplatform.com #canadianartist #art #ceramics #exhibition #peopleschoice
I'm standing behind a sculptural representation of the Art Comp logo.A selfie of me standing in front of my artwork - Interconnected Isolation, Series #1. It's a set of 12 wall tiles made in ceramics and hand painted with an abstract design. The ceramics look like squares of fabric.I'm facing my artwork and speaking with 2 viewers. My hand is pointing to the work as I speak. Side view of the art work
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Excited to share that my artwork, Interconnected Isolation, Series 1, has been selected for Art Comp 2025 starting May 30 and running for 100 days! I'm honoured to be one of 100 chosen for this show. 100 Kellogg Lane, London ON #interconnectedisolation #clay #ceramic #sculptural #art #canadian
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Here is the landscape photo that I took that inspired the 3 Cherryhill paintings. Do you have a preference on the style of painting 1, 2 or 3? #painting #art #artist #canadian #landscape #inspiration #abstract #expressionism #brushstrokes #textures #paletteknife #ArtYear
Photograph of the landscape that inspired the 3 paintings in this post. It shows wispy cloud formations as the sun sets. Cherryhill #1 

Abstract expressionist painting with varying lines and brushstrokes overlapping each other to create the landscape and to capture the movement in the sky. Cherryhill #2
Abstract expressionist painting with a combination of brushstrokes and palette knife to capture movement and textures. Cherryhill #3
Abstract expressionist painting created only using a palette knife. This also captured movement and textures.
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Palette knife painting process video. Cherryhill #3 #painting #processvideo #hyperlapse #paletteknife #art #artist #canadian #landscape #abstract #expressionism #BlueskyArtShow #ArtYear #FebruARTy
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Here is the 3rd painting inspired by the same landscape as Cherryhill #1 and #2. This one was done only with a palette knife. Cherryhill #3 #painting #art #artist #canadian #landscape #inspired #abstract #oiloncanvas #paletteknife #FebruARTy #ArtYear #BlueskyArtShow #BlueskyArtNightMarket
Abstract landscape painting. It was painted only with a palette knife. The sky has blues, purples, white and small bits of yellow. The mid ground has yellow and reds to represent the sun setting. And the foreground is brown and darker shades. Close up of the sky Close up of the midground.
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
After a very long hiatus of not painting or creating. I wanted to rediscover my creative process and style. Inspired by the same landscape as Cherryhill #1, here is another version. Cherryhill #2 #painting #landscape #artist #art #canadian #BlueSkyArtNightMarket #ArtYear #FebruArty #oil #canvas
Landscape painting in an expressionist way. With a mix of textured brushstrokes and palette knife painting. The sky at a sun set, the foreground textured and shadowed as the light is from behind. The sky filled with clouds and streaks of clouds. The colours are blue, purple and white with the midground showing some yellows, oranges and purples. Close up to show the brush textures. Another close up of the mid and foreground to show the palette knife textures. The painting in it's new home after being purchased. It is on a wall by itself with a gallery light over it. It's in a small hallway of a condo. Take from the living room, you see shelving with other items, picture frames, bowls and sculptures. The sculpture on the third shelf and the 2 small vessels on the second shelf and pieces that I made.
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
#BlueSkyArtShow the theme is #monochrome Small hand painted bowl #pottery #ceramics #turquiose #amacovelvetunderglaze #porcelain #smallbowl #linedesign #pottersofbluesky #ArtYear #artist #art #canadian
Small bowl (top view) made in porcelain. Hand painted with varying shades of turquoise underglaze using a watercolour technique. Then a black line design intertwines the turquoise. Small bowl made in porcelain. Hand painted with varying shades of turquoise underglaze using a watercolour technique. Then a black line design intertwines the turquoiseSmall bowl (angle shows the design on exterior and interior) made in porcelain. Hand painted with varying shades of turquoise underglaze using a watercolour technique. Then a black line design intertwines the turquoiseSmall bowl (close up view of the side) made in porcelain. Hand painted with varying shades of turquoise underglaze using a watercolour technique. Then a black line design intertwines the turquoise
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
After completing my BFA, I went through an event and I "lost" my creativity. Many many years later, I needed a painting for over my couch. This was inspired by a photo of the sky I took. Cherryhill #1 #art #artist #canadianart #artyear #blueskynightmarket #landscape #inspired #sky #abstract
Abstract painting. Brushstrokes of overlapping colours to create a landscape. Inspired by the sky. View of the painting over a couch in a living room. Another view of the painting over the couch in a living room Detailed view. Close up of the painting to show the brushstrokes
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
It was a snow day today - all schools were closed. After a day of shovelling and entertaining my husky in the snow, it was nice to unwind with a tea and relax with a line drawing in my sketchbook #workinprogress #relaxation #linedrawing #sketchbook #linedrawing #art #artist #ArtYear #canadian
Sketchbook drawing of intersecting lines with contouring lines drawing in the spaces between the intersections. It's a work in progress.
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
It's been 3 weeks since joining Bluesky, and I'm loving this platform so far. I just finished the #20pots to share my ceramic work. What other hashtags are artists using to share work?
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I love making these bowls! Creating the lines are often a relaxing part of the process as I allow the form to guide me. The Gardiner Museum Shop asked for a set to sell. Grateful for the opportunity. linktr.ee/alanamar.arts #pottery #ceramics #clay #pottersofbluesky #blueskynightmarket #canadian
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Choose 20 pots or ceramic pieces you’ve made. Share one piece per day for 20 days, no particular order. Day 20 Interconnected #20pots #clay #pottery #ceramics #wheelthrown #linedesign #blackline #connection #tiles #sculpture #pottersofbluesky #artist #art #canadian #ArtYear #finalday20pots
A porcelain bowl with thick black lines that intersect and interconnect with each other. The lines are hand painted in the interior and on the exterior.
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Canadian Art 🍁 @canadianart.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Artist: @alanamar-arts.bsky.social Smoke fired - copper oxide and terra sigillata #20pots #clay #pottery #ceramics #wheelthrown #copper #smoke #reaction #terrasigillata #pottersofbluesky #artist #art #canadian
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
This set has 9 tiles that were slip cast from a plaster mould I made of the original sculpted design. The black line is used to disrupt the form and connect each tile. #pottery #ceramics #clay #slipcast #blackline #design #sculptural #connection #disruption #pottersofbluesky #art #artist #canadian
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Choose 20 pots or ceramic pieces you’ve made. Share one piece per day for 20 days, no particular order. Day 19 Interconnected - large sculptural tiles #20pots #clay #pottery #ceramics #slipcast #linedesign #blackline #connection #tiles #sculpture #pottersofbluesky #artist #art #canadian #ArtYear
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Ida Olson 🌱 Little Eden Pottery @idaolson.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
If you’re looking for more #pottery and #ceramics people, I have a starter pack for that! go.bsky.app/Jg45GC6 #art #pottersofbluesky
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
With this set, I wanted to explore the use of positive and negative space. The black line transforms into a white line when the surface changes from white to black. Then I used red marks to interrupt the surface. #pottery #ceramics #clay #nest #set #pottersofbluesky #art #artist #artyear #canadian
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Choose 20 pots or ceramic pieces you’ve made. Share one piece per day for 20 days, no particular order. Day 18 Interrupted nesting bowls #20pots #clay #pottery #ceramics #wheelthrown #linedesign #black #white #red #interrupted #pottersofbluesky #artist #art #canadian #ArtYear
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Another set of sculptural bowls that nest into each other. They all have a unique hand painted line design, but when nested connect at the rim. 3 of these pieces are available at The Gardiner Museum Shop. linktr.ee/alanamar.arts #pottery #ceramics #clay #slipcast #gardinershop #toronto #art
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Choose 20 pots or ceramic pieces you’ve made. Share one piece per day for 20 days, no particular order. Day 17 Interconnected sculptural bowl #20pots #clay #pottery #ceramics #slipcast #sculptural #linedesign #pottersofbluesky #artist #art #canadian #ArtYear
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
At a workshop the past summer, I got to experiment with using copper oxide in a smoke fire. I love the unpredictability of the colours that are going to appear depending on the amount of flame before snuffing it out. #pottery #ceramics #pottersofbluesky #smokefire #copperoxide #reaction #colourful
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Choose 20 pots or ceramic pieces you’ve made. Share one piece per day for 20 days, no particular order. Day 16 Smoke fired - copper oxide and terra sigillata #20pots #clay #pottery #ceramics #wheelthrown #copper #smoke #reaction #terrasigillata #pottersofbluesky #artist #art #canadian
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I have 2 bowls in my "Along the road..." series so far. These were inspired by a road trip to the east coast and translating watercolour paintings I did on that trip onto 3D clay surfaces. This one I continued the painting into the interior. #pottery #ceramics #pottersofbluesky #landscape #artist
Watercolour landscape painting - countryside with trees and greenery, a little house amongst the trees with a cloudy sky. Combination of watercolour paint and fine line markers to give it a more graphic quality. Close up of the bowl with the landscape painted on it. This section shows the house amongst the trees. Interior of the bowl (picture taken from the top). The sun and clouds are painted so that the landscape continues from the exterior into the interior. Bottom of the bowl, highlighting the line work and the signature I use at the bottom of my hand painted work
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Choose 20 pots or ceramic pieces you’ve made. Share one piece per day for 20 days, no particular order. Day 15 Landscape bowl #20pots #clay #pottery #ceramics #wheelthrown #amacovelvetunderglaze #landscape #interior #exterior #pottersofbluesky #artist #art #canadian
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Creating as part of a set, represents connection and belonging as part of the human experience. Slabs sculpted in wavy, fabric like patterns, then hand painted. #pottery #ceramics #clay #slab #sculpture #wavy #fabric #handpainted #colourful #blackline #art #artist #pottersofbluesky #canadian
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Choose 20 pots or ceramic pieces you’ve made. Share one piece per day for 20 days, no particular order. Day 14 Interconnected Isolation sculpture #20pots #clay #pottery #ceramics #slab #amavovelvetunderglaze #connection #abstract #pottersofbluesky #artist #art #canadian
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Here's a starter pack I created. Artists and Creators that I have followed on other platforms for years, and some new that I've met here on Bluesky. I missed a lot of people. Please let me know if you'd like to be added. #pottery #ceramics #artists #creators #pottersofbluesky go.bsky.app/5GSFVu6
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The inspiration for this set of monochromatic sculptural bowls came after a road trip to Newfoundland and seeing the all the colourful seaside houses. #pottery #ceramics #clay #sculptural #monochromatic #set #jellybeanrow #inspiration #underglaze #abstract #art #canadianartist
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Choose 20 pots or ceramic pieces you’ve made. Share one piece per day for 20 days, no particular order. Day 13 Monochromatic sculptural bowl #20pots #clay #pottery #ceramics #slipcast #amavovelvetunderglaze #monochromatic #turquoise #curvy #abstract #pottersofbluesky #artist #art #canadian
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Choose 20 pots or ceramic pieces you’ve made. Share one piece per day for 20 days, no particular order. Day 12 Barrel fired pot #20pots #clay #pottery #ceramics #barrelfired #smoke #smokefired #cobalt #copper #pottersofbluesky #artist #art #canadian
A ceramic pot that has been fired in a barrel. The smoke caused a chemical reaction to cobalts, copper and Epsom salts. There are some orange, blue and grey tones caused by the smoke.
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Choose 20 pots or ceramic pieces you’ve made. Share one piece per day for 20 days, no particular order. Day 11 Textured bowl #20pots #slip #clay #pottery #ceramics #colouredslip #abstract #painting #pottersofbluesky #artist #art #canadian
A bowl with texture on the surface. It's black, white and small red marks through it.
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Here are more pics of the slip cast large tiles. The surface is sculptural then hand painted with my Interconnected Isolation design. #pottery #ceramics #design #clay #slipcast #connection #set #colourful #linedesign #pottersofbluesky #blueskynightmarket #art #artist #canadianartist #handpainted
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Choose 20 pots or ceramic pieces you’ve made. Share one piece per day for 20 days, no particular order. Day 10 Interconnected Isolation - large tiles #20pots #slipcast #clay #pottery #ceramics #amacovelvetunderglaze #linedesign #colourful #abstract #painting #pottersofbluesky #artist #art
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
My Interconnected Isolation #ceramics work was #inspired by sets of watercolour paintings I had done over the pandemic. I enjoyed the representation of connection through the colour blending, isolation represented with the disruption of the black line. #watercolour #painting #connection #art #artist
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
A few more pics of the set. Individually painted, but connect at the rim when they nest. Interconnected Isolation #pottery #ceramics #clay #wheelthrown #nestingbowls #handpainted #colour #linedesign #pottersofbluesky #art #artist #connection
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Here is a process video of painting Interconnected Isolation on the bowl. The colours are layered, usually from lightest to darkest, the black line around the colour blends. #pottery #ceramics #underglaze #amaco #painting #abstract #decorate #pottersofbluesky #art #artist #progresspost #wip
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Choose 20 pots or ceramic pieces you’ve made. Share one piece per day for 20 days, no particular order. Day 9 Interconnected Isolation - nesting bowls #20pots #wheelthrown #clay #pottery #ceramics #amacovelvetunderglaze #linedesign #nesting #abstract #painting #pottersofbluesky #artist #art
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
A couple of my bowls made it into The Gardiner Shop's spotlight today 💕 (from Instagram) There are still 3 bowls and 3 sculptural forms still available. linktr.ee/alanamar.arts #pottery #ceramics #bowls #linedesign #spotlight #pottersofbluesky #art #artist #gardinermuseum #toronto
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Choose 20 pots or ceramic pieces you’ve made. Share one piece per day for 20 days, no particular order. Day 8 Smoke fired bowl with water etched design #20pots #wheelthrown #clay #pottery #ceramics #smokefire #wateretched #design #raku #copperoxide #terrasigillata #pottersofbluesky #artist #art
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
A quick video on the decorative process. This process of making lines on various forms is one of my favorites - so satisfying! #pottery #clay #ceramics #amacovelvetunderglaze #jetblack #blackline #design #disrupted #connection #pottersofbluesky
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
As much as I love colour, I also love the way a black line can disrupt the form on its own. This set, like the others connect at the rim when nested. #pottery #ceramics #clay #slipcast #blackline #design #disrupted #nested #set #connection #pottersofbluesky
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Choose 20 pots or ceramic pieces you’ve made. Share one piece per day for 20 days, no particular order. Day 7 Disrupted - sculptural form #20pots #slipcast #clay #pottery #ceramics #linedesign #connection #disrupted #sculpturalform #curvy #pottersofbluesky #artist #art
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Choose 20 pots or ceramic pieces you’ve made. Share one piece per day for 20 days, no particular order. Day 6 Barrel fired bowl #20pots #barrelfire #smoke #fire #clay #pottery #ceramics #wheelthrown #pottersofbluesky #artist #art
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Ida Olson 🌱 Little Eden Pottery @idaolson.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I made a #potterystarterpack of awesome potters and ceramicists if you’re into that sort of thing 🏺 #pottery #art #artists #pottersofbluesky go.bsky.app/Jg45GC6
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Choose 20 pots or ceramic pieces you’ve made. Share one piece per day for 20 days, no particular order. Day 5 Soda fired sculptural form #20pots #sodafire #abstract #slip #texture #clay #pottery #ceramics #pottersofbluesky #artist #art
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Alana @alanamar-arts.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Process video of creating the lines on my abstract sculptural forms. My favourite tool for all of my line designs is my underglaze/slip trail bulb. #sculpture #pottery #ceramics #process #wip #underglazetrail #xiem #linedesign #pottersofbluesky #curiouspup #husky
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