Published in Ceramics Monthly, February 2012
"Sometimes clay seems to be genetically imprinted in our DNA. For celebrated Canadian ceramic artist, Greg Payce, the subject of a solo exhibition titled “Greg Payce: Illusions” at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto, Canada, which is currently on view, this was the case. Payce, a 40-year veteran in the field who counts over 120 national and international solo and group exhibitions, can’t remember a time when he wanted to be anything other than an artist. As is common for many children growing up in both urban and rural places, Payce remembers digging for clay in his backyard and fashioning animal figurines. What’s not common about Payce is that, at the age of six, he had a transformative experience as he sat mesmerized in front of his neighbor’s television watching a potter create a vessel out of a lump of clay on a wheel.... "
