Gate Five Clay members are happy to show our images and contact information (not to be used without our consent) to those who wish to see what we do and might like to contact us individually for commissions etc. Our email addresses are included at the end of our personal pages.

Any given day you might find one, or five, or more of us working in our communal studios. We are all almost never there working at the same time, however we would be happy to meet you there with prior arrangement if you would like to visit.

Our address is;

247 Gate Five Road, Sausalito, CA. ( Next door to Varda Landing )

If there is a through-line in my life it is learning. A teacher of mine once made the observation that learning is the process, change is the outcome, and changes there have been.

I arrived at ceramics post career. Putting my hands in clay led me from thinking to doing, moved by the feel of the earth and inspired to be of use.

I throw pots, vessels to contain sustenance - food and drink. I am motivated by the image of people who choose those pots, will use them, find comfort in them throughout their lives.

On occasion I make sculptures to capture an image, a truth, about our collective experience.

I may not know you, but my work may touch your hand or please your eye with something that brings you to yourself. Enjoy.

hillairbell@gmail.com

bogie94941@yahoo.com

Larry Gilmour Artist:

My practice is grounded in drawing, but I enjoy the physicality of clay,so my challenge has been to find ways to integrate the two modes of making.I experiment with various forms, both hand-built and thrown on the wheel.When you move around a three-dimensional object, marks on its surface take on a narrative quality as images are revealed in sequence. Finding the images and marks that fit the form is sometimes a struggle; preconceptions do not always work out. My process is experimental, what holds my interest is the unfolding of a work as the possibilities arise during construction.

Please contact me at; crowquill@comcast.net

Julianne began putting her hands in clay in 2015 when she enrolled in various ceramic classes and workshops across the Bay Area. She loves the whole process of turning a ball of clay into a beautiful and useful object, throwing or hand building a piece, trimming, bisque firing, glazing and firing again to create something wonderful to hold and use everyday. Julianne works with many types of clay, often leaving parts of her pieces unglazed, showing the contrast of the glaze against the natural beauty of fired clay. She joined Gate 5 Clay in 2019 and is grateful to her ceramic community of clay enthusiasts.

Please contact me at: julianneh240@gmail.com

ceramicpots@gmail.com

tammikelly123@gmail.com

sheri.liebscher@gmail.com

g123morris@gmail.com

sularula@sonic.net

I love clay! Can’t believe I passed it by during my earlier life. For the past few years since I discovered the medium, I have three areas of study/work/making.

Portraits from life. Life casting of subjects with plaster bandage. The following clay positive is modeled from a series of photos and sittings.

Pet commissions/from photographic images. (Deep love for my four legged friends)

My maker series / Bird Houses, Bee Hives and Hanging Pots. I enjoy making something useful, though I find these ceramic crafts more challenging than anything else, too many disappointments in the firing.

Please contact me at; jillspowell@gmail.com

SALLY SEYMOUR

Born in Hollywood, CA 1934-Attended Mills College 1951

Graduated California College of the Arts 1974

Moved to San Francisco 1975 and opened Sally’s Upstairs Deli. That was a roaring success so, on to building and operating Sally’s Cafe’ and Bakery with my youngest daughter Katherine in 1985- 1996. I have continued to study painting and drawing under ; Stanley Goldstein, Sam Provanzano, Kay Russell, Chester Arnold and Jack Scott. Ceramics under; Karen Koltonow, Mary Grauberger, Bill Abright, Logan Wood and Al Widenhoffer.

My work has been shown in various local juried shows and I was part of San Francisco Open Studios for many years at Hunters Point Shipyards.

If you would like to visit my website to view more of my work and a list of the galleries that have represented me, please go to sallyseymour.com.

dxwilson@comcast.com