Sandra Marshall

My art training began at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts children’s art classes were my favorite times there was modeling clay. Later, in architecture school at McGill, I especially loved the life drawing and sketching schools. I returned to working with clay at the Mount Royal Pottery Studio during the early years of family life, to give myself that undeniable pleasure of self-expression. There I learned wheel-throwing but found I was drawn most to hand building. Upon moving to Ottawa in the early 1990s, I have continued to explore this art form, taking workshops with Leta Cormier, Michael Sheba, Les Manning, Jim Thompson, and others while working out of my own studio. I am a member of the National Capital Network of Sculpture and a long-standing member of the Ottawa Guild of Potters – previously Guild newsletter editor, communications and promotions chair and a coordinator of the Great Bowl of Fire charity fundraiser and workshop coordinator.
Awards and Exhibitions

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Art School junior scholarship in 1965 for clay modeling. I have participated in numerous exhibitions through the Town of Mount Royal Pottery Studio and the Ottawa Guild of Potters annual juried exhibition, Jurors Choice awards (2001 John Ikeda, 2004 Leta Cormier, 2010 Penelope Kokkinos jurors).