Tree Vase, porcelain

Against far off snow mountains

Two crows are flying.

Murakami Kijo

selections from Romulus Craft

dinnerware, above & below.

We have other work available.

Please contact us for images.

U-Su bowls on rectangle plate

Romulus Craft,

ceramics by Ikuzi Teraki & Jeanne Bisson

at Iowa Artisans Gallery,

extended through August 20, 2007

Sculptural tableaus?  Haiku settings for a mindful experience of food?  An evocation of a transcendent moment in the natural world?  Ikuzi Teraki and Jeanne Bisson combine their lifelong association with Japanese ceramics with a powerful connection to nature. In these production pieces and more sculptural works, the artists reflect their twenty-eight year collaboration known as Romulus Craft.

Ikuzi Teraki grew up in Kyoto, one of Japan’s most famous pottery towns. Although he was trained in his family’s tradition of painting silk kimonos, Teraki was drawn to clay. He graduated from Kyoto Ceramic School and apprenticed for five years with Master Hisashi Tezuka in Kyoto. Studies at Banff School of Fine Art in Banff, Canada brought him to North America. In 1979, he established Romulus Craft with Jeanne Bisson in California. They relocated their studio to Washington, VT in 1986. Bisson grew up on her family’s dairy farm in Vermont. “I thought that I lived on the rim of a bowl that was full of earth,” she recounts. Her early experience manifests itself in the work of Romulus.

Bisson feels that the image in this haiku by

Murakami Kijo relates to their work and life as artists:

Against far off snow mountains

Two crows are flying.

Romulus Craft’s award winning work has exhibited widely both in the United States and Japan and has been featured in over twenty-five publications and books, including “Objects for Use/Handmade by Design,” published in 2001 by Harry Abrams Publishers. Romulus Craft also sells their production line in the most prestigious craft shows in the United States.

Iowa Artisans Gallery was established by artists in 1984 and is open daily. For more information, please contact the Gallery at 319-351-8686.

Elle, porcelain

River Rock , porcelain