Liz Lescault is a clay artist with over twenty-five years of professional experience. Her studio is located in Cheverly, Maryland where she creates her one of a kind vessel forms, ceramic sculpture and wall art.
Her present work is distinguished by extraordinarily beautiful glaze surfaces, among which are the complex reds, oranges, greens and earth tones. Applying as many as twenty glaze layers and firing the pieces multiple times achieves the depth and variation of color allowing the viewer to look through multiple veils of transparent glaze into a mirrored surface of liquid color.
Liz lived in Botswana and Lesotho where she studied traditional African techniques and in France where she studied watercolor. A selection of her work is part of the permanent collection of the National Museum of Botswana.
When she returned to the United States from Africa in 1987 she began working with low fire ceramics, using terra sigillata slips to create an unglazed patina for rendering complex geometric and abstract designs on vessel surfaces. Simultaneously, in 1990, Liz began developing low fire glazing techniques while expanding her repertoire of organic and sculptural vessel forms. Over many years of experimentation with multiple glazing and firing techniques, a body of original and distinctive work evolved. Her intent is to create depth of color by layering one transparent glaze over another and by using the interaction of glazes to create special effects. Her explorations have brought her to an intimate understanding of the relationship of color and form and the way glazes interact with form and surface. Liz uses this knowledge to bring her work to life.
Liz Lescault has exhibited widely but concentrates her energies locally where she can have personal contact with her students, customers and fellow artists. She finds great gratification in dialogue and interaction with the art community, which adds an invaluable dimension to her pursuits.
Click here to visit a gallery of additional one of a kind vessel forms and sculpture. You can also click on any of the images on this page to see an enlarged view of the piece and a slide show of additional pieces.
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