Dawn Candy

Dawn Candy is a visual artist living and working in Red Deer, Alberta. Born and raised in Taber, Alberta, she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Lethbridge where she studied world religions, analytic philosophy and history. She then went on to achieve her diploma in Visual Art from Red Deer College.

Currently she teaches several community art classes in addition to making her own work. She creates drawings and also works in clay, making both utilitarian pottery and sculptural pieces. Her work is inspired by the fierce, sometimes cruel, beauty of the natural world, and also by various cultural creative responses to this harshness, including myth, superstition, ritual, and games.

Website: http://www.littlesister.ca/ 

1. Bearers
Bearers
2. Changeling Teacups
Changeling Teacups
Sculpture of a cage made of white mushrooms with a black figure imprisoned.
Stalemate
Pencil drawing of a rabbit with its large ears at attention.
When I Was a Rabbit
Pencil drawing of a sitting crow with its head turned looking over its shoulder.
While He Was a Crow
6. Medusa-mug1-front-and-back
Medusa Mug
7. Tempest mugs, green
Tempest Mugs
Tan ceramic tea pot with brown diamond designs.
Trellis Teapot