John Glick is known for functional, thrown, stoneware vessels with painterly surfaces. His early work reflected his Cranbrook teacher, Maija Grotell, and is characterized by simple, undecorated stoneware dinner services and functional vessels.Glick founded Plum Tree Pottery in 1964. There he produced a range of functional vessels with sophisticated painterly decoration. The surface is drawn on and painted with slips and glazes, frequently with flower and vine motifs, sometimes built up to form relief or textured underglaze surfaces, always creating the illusion of depth.
Toward the end of the 1960s, his work began to reflect his interest in 18th and 19th-century Japanese art and contemporary Abstract Expressionism. Beginning in the 1990s, in an effort to get larger surfaces, he made landscape-inspired wall panels.
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