Linda Sikora marks

About Linda Sikora

Linda Sikora’s thrown porcelain or stoneware jars, bowls, and teapots are best known for their complex forms and polychrome surfaces. Typical of earlier pieces, are manipulated or embellished details made after removal from the wheel. Sikora created these details by pinching the clay to add ruffles or, by adding small balls of clay the rim.

Sikora's work from circa 2012 on, simplifies her previously embellished forms by instead exploring the subtleties of form and surface techniques. This is evident in her 'faux wood' group of 2012. Sikora begins her firings with wood and ends with an oil drip. Using oil to finish the firing allows some ash deposits on the work but prevents the rich colors from burning out or being clouded by ash deposits. Sikora uses either wood, oil and salt firing, or, salt firing.