Clay and Plaster

1. Kathy Pallie
I enjoyed a career in commercial art, designing
products for retail store windows and interior
displays, trade show booths and special events.
This involved working with many different
materials. When I retired and put my hands
into clay, I knew this was an exciting material
which I had to explore further.

2. Adrian Arleo is a ceramic sculptor living
outside Missoula, Montana. She studied Art
and Anthropology at Pitzer College (B.A. 1983)
and received her M.F.A. in ceramics from
Rhode Island School of Design in 1986. Arleo
was an Artist in Residence at Oregon College of
Art and Craft in 1986-87, and at Sitka Center
For Art and Ecology in 1987-88. For nearly
thirty years, Arleo has focused her work on the
human figure, often combining it with animal
imagery, and other elements of the natural
world. Some works allude to a relationship of
understanding or connection between the
human and animal realms. In others, human
figures possess animal features in a way that
reveals something hidden about the
character or primal nature of the human.

3. Nick macman
Nick Mackman is an award winning
sculptor of ceramic and bronze animal
sculptures. She has been widely
exhibited and in 2012 she was Overall
Runner-up and Go Wild Category Winner
in the Wildlife Artist of the Year
competition. She won the Open Category
in 2010.
Her animal sculptures have found home
with, amongst others, John Cleese, Dame
Judi Dench, Chris Packham, David
Shepherd and Vicountess Serena Linley.
She has been commissioned by British
Airways and the Wildlife Photographer of
the Year competition (pictured below
with Sir David Attenborough).

4. George Segal
George Segal was born in New York on November 26, 1924,
to a Jewish couple who emigrated from Eastern Europe. His
parents first settled in the Bronx where they ran a butcher
shop and later moved to a New Jersey poultry farm.
George spent many of his early years working on the
poultry farm, helping his family through difficult times. For a
while, George lived with his aunt in Brooklyn so that he
could attend Stuyvesant Technical High School and prepare
himself for a future in the math/science field. It was here
that George first discovered his love for art.
During World War II, he had to curtail his studies in order to
help on the family poultry farm. He later attended Pratt,
Cooper Union, and finally New York University where he
furthered his art education and received a teaching degree
in 1949. It was during these years that Segal met other
young artists eager to make statements based on the real
world rather than the pure abstractionism that was all the
rage. He joined the 10th Street scene, painting and
concentrating on expressionist, figurative themes.

5. Johnson Cheung-shing TSANG is a Hong Kong sculptor
specializing in ceramics, stainless steel sculpture and
public art work. Tsang’s works mostly employ realist
sculptural techniques accompanied by surrealist
imagination, integrating the two elements, “human
beings” and “objects”, into creative themes. Since 1993,
Tsang’s works have been exhibited in Hong Kong, Taiwan,
Korea, Spain and Switzerland and collected by local and
overseas museums and collectors.
Johnson TSANG

6. Stephan Antonson
Plaster was the prized medium of some of the early 20th century’s most revered designers, among them
Jean Michel Frank, Serge Roche and Giacometti. Today, celebrated plaster artisan Stephen Antonson,
crowned the master of plaster byArchitectural Digest, reintroduces the age-old medium to the interior
design trade in his collection of furnishings, lighting and accessories.
Working out of his Brooklyn, New York atelier, Antonson creates every piece by hand. He paints plaster
onto his designs in layers with a brush, then meticulously sculpts and sands it repeatedly to achieve
objects of surreal beauty. A classically trained sculptor and painter, the engaging designer taps into his
broad knowledge of these disciplines to inform his work. He has recently added bronze to his offerings.
Antonson welcomes collaboration; he has worked with dozens of clients to create original one-of-a-kind,
custom pieces.