Roseline Delisle (1952 – 2003) was born in Rimouski, Québec. She was from a family that encouraged creativity. Her mother worked in clay as a hobby and her farther worked with wood sculpting. She attended the Institute of Applied Arts in Montreal, Quebec, in 1969. After graduating in 1973, Delisle worked as an apprentice under Enid Legros-Wise until 1977. In 1978, she moved to the United States where started her first solo studio in Venice, California.
Delisle resided and maintained a studio practice in Santa Monica, California, she was known in the ceramics community for her large-scale vessel forms, wheel thrown in sections and banded with colored slips. Her older works were constructed from porcelain thrown sections fused together in the kiln, however her more contemporary works are created from earthenware, and threaded on a metal rod, secured to a weighted base for stability. Delisle died Nov. 12, 2003 in Santa Monica, California of ovarian cancer at age 50.
© 2019. All images are copyrighted © by Roseline Delisle or assignee. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, the use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained. All images used for illustrative purposes only.
Delisle resided and maintained a studio practice in Santa Monica, California, she was known in the ceramics community for her large-scale vessel forms, wheel thrown in sections and banded with colored slips. Her older works were constructed from porcelain thrown sections fused together in the kiln, however her more contemporary works are created from earthenware, and threaded on a metal rod, secured to a weighted base for stability. Delisle died Nov. 12, 2003 in Santa Monica, California of ovarian cancer at age 50.
© 2019. All images are copyrighted © by Roseline Delisle or assignee. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, the use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained. All images used for illustrative purposes only.
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