Anneke's Pottery Design

About

Anneke

Anneke is a member of the Norfolk Potters Guild

Anneke

Anneke Kazmierczak is a wife and a mother to 5 children and has worked in Addictions since 2003. In 2018, she picked up pottery as a hobby, as the demands of raising young children started to ease. This was not the first time Anneke picked up clay though. She first picked up clay as a young child, as her father has been a potter for over 60 years. Her father would take her to the factory, Castle Ceramics which was co-owned by him and his brother.  She would be left to her own devices and play with clay for hours or watch the painters and sometimes she even got to paint damaged pieces.  Anneke has always had a love for art with mostly being drawn to clay. 

Her hobby soon grew into a small business and she opened her own home studio. She has been blessed to have her father as her pottery teacher who helps out in the studio. They often work on pieces together with each doing a part in the process. Anneke and Marius’s pieces can be found at some local shops in Ingersoll, Waterford and Port Dover as well as she attends local artisan market events. Be sure to check it out!

 

Anneke is a member of the Norfolk Potters Guild

Marius

Vest Keramiek, Gouda

Marius

Marius Van Woerden has been a potter for over 60 years and at 81 years old is still not ready to give up clay. Marius Van Woerden’s interest in pottery began when he was a teenager. He spent his free time at De Steenuil Pottery (Steeuil is Dutch for stone owl) which was across the street from where he lived in The Netherlands. In 1961, when he was a conscript in the Dutch army, he picked up pottery as an extracurricular evening activity. He was taught by Frans Slot how to turn clay at the potter’s wheel and how to make and use different types of glazes. Marius felt he left the army more as an accomplished potter than well-trained soldier. After working for some potters, him and his brother together started  Van Woerden Pottery in 1964, which later came to be called Vest Keramiek. Vest Keramiek became very popular for its Fat Lava glazes (pictured below) which became very popular in Germany and what is commonly thought of as West German Fat Lava. Marius immigrated to Canada in 1983 and started Castle Ceramics with his brother in Norwich, ON. He then switched from pottery to making animal figurines from a moulded composition material and later also added the Norwich Collection, with two of his designers, which made clay replicas of important Canadian historic sites. From 2008 until recently Marius worked out of Don Zverr Pottery, Troy throwing clay for charity fundraisers. He now works out of Anneke’s Pottery studio a couple days per week on the wheel throwing clay into beautiful creations. See more about Marius’s past work at vestkeramiek.com.

Vest Keramiek, Gouda
Vase with Fat Lava Glaze