Gerald ARRINGTON
Born: 1972, Idaho
Medium: stoneware

Gerry received his Bachelors Degree with a Fine Arts major from Idaho State University in Pocatello in 1993.  He has taught and shown extensively.  His work is especially inspired by river washed stones.  He says:

My journey creating ceramic trompe l’oeil stones began while living on the Big Wood River in the central Idaho mountains. The softly rounded forms of river stones have been a consistent source of inspiration.

Through tectonic forces, clay metamorphoses into rock. Then as the rock erodes and begins to tumble down a stream, the bits and chips that are worn off eventually decompose and become clay sediments. The cycle repeats, and it’s this circularity of clay to rock to clay that remains a consistent source of inspiration.

Both Gerry’s sculptural pieces and functional work incorporate ceramic “stones” and even the “driftwood” handles to a teapot are stoneware.  He has garnered numerous awards at craft shows across the United States.

Exhibitions:
  La Quinta Arts Festival, La Quinta CA
  Art in the High Desert, Bend OR
  Sausalito Arts Festival
  National Teapot Show, Creedmore NC
  Sun Valley Arts and Crafts Festival, Ketchum ID
  ACGA Palo Alto Clay and Glass Festival
  American Craft Council Shows, Baltimore MD and San Francisco CA
  Smithsonian Craft Show, Washington DC
  Big Fish Small Pot: International Small Teapot Competition, Pomona CA