Dena Perlmutar

Dena started working in clay when she was in high school. In the years since then, she has dabbled in sculpture, pottery and jewellery design. 

Working in clay, whether sculpture, throwing or hand-building realizes Dena’s compulsion toward 3-dimensional art “ Rather than creating an illusion on a flat two dimensional surface, one can explore an object from every angle, each angle creating a new perspective.

​“I especially love to make bowls of different shapes, sizes, textures and lots of colour!” Bowls are vessels whose inner functional space is determined by size, form and dimensions of the outer container.

Dena retired from teaching in 2014. She took a number of pottery classes until joining Woodlawn Pottery in March of 2017. 

Dena’s work includes: 

• Hand built sculptural pieces- figures bonding to create the walls of a vessel, 
• Colourful thrown bowls etc.- using a variety of underglazes and coloured slips, then finishing with a clear or translucent glaze .
• Dark Granite ramen bowls