Terry and Ken Bovee
The Zen garden of the famous Ryoanji Temple in Kyoto is the inspiration for many of Ken and Terry Bovee's art works, beginning with a raked rock garden which they have constructed at their home on Deer Isle. Their art work is informed by experiences in Japan which find a rhythm and spirit on Deer Isle.
Terry worked as an occupational therapist in psychiatry before retiring to devote herself to fiber arts and hand built porcelain pots. Like her husband, she has studied for a number of summers at Haystack Mountain School of Craft on Deer Isle, and with master Korean potter, Ki Woon Huh, during winters in Sarasota, FL.
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Terry's interest in linking family and spiritual explorations with her responses to the natural world is very clear in the works she displays in her home and works she gives to loved ones.
This quilted hanging incorporates her sumie bamboo painting with silk screen on fabric and forms a backdrop for porcelain pieces into which she has incised her design of butterflies and bonsai. Her work focuses on surface design on fibers and on porcelain. Lately her works show her exploration of flower pounding techniques.
The Bovee's designed their home to reflect the connectedness they feel with the spruce forest, rocks and sea forms of Japan and Deer Isle. They live intimately with the art they make, whether it is tableware, bed coverings or room furnishings. They approach all life as an art work in progress.
Ken, emeritus professor of veterinary medicine, University of Pennsylvania, also paints with Japanese brush, whether it be on paper or his pottery. The ceramic pieces above were fashioned while studying with Ki Woon Huh. He has also built a norborigama wood-fired, two-chambered kiln in collaboration with 3 other Deer Isle potters. His work is wheel thrown, hand built, or both. Look for his work at the Pitcher-Masters Gallery or during the annual Peninsula Potters studio/gallery sale on Columbus Day Weekend, this year October 6,7,8th. (See the Deer Isle-Stonington Chamber of Commerce web site for further details about this guild of artists in the East Penobscot Bay Area.)