Derek Kasper

Derek Kasper is a ceramic artist based in Victoria focused on larger scale ceramic work characterized by expressive textures and unique glazing effects. He retired from a long career in construction and facility operations management several years ago and now has much more time to devote to mostly self-taught ceramic work. He adores focusing on his artwork and keeping physically active. Derek is inspired by nature and the rhythmic nature of water and waves, and usually incorporate their textures into the surfaces of his work, while also noting the similarities to waving fields of grasses and crops from his long-ago prairie background.

With purity of curve and colour and form I hope to inspire a certain stillness of contemplation. I aspire to this ideal, but the materials and heat and human frailties of body and spirit will always have their say, even if you have to listen carefully.