Artist Statement:
Wayne Ngan

"In the pottery of Wayne Ngan we find, perhaps more strongly and consistently than in the work of any other Canadian potter, the presence in form and spirit of Far-Eastern ceramics. Today, Ngan has a firm reputation as a totally committed studio potter. Living and working by the sea, in a house and kiln-equipped studio all of his own design and making, he has achieved an integration of his life and his art that embodies the values of simplicity and wholeness at the centre of his personal philosophy. Ngan's holistic approach to art is neither sought after nor capable of realization by most craftspeople today, but his example has the force and persuasiveness of the committed and productive visionary. Out of this commitment have come works that reassert pottery's fundamental meanings while at the same time they echo some of its great moments in time."

Doris Shadbolt
Writer/Curator
North Burnaby, British Columbia