About the Artist:

Steve Portteus has been working in ceramics on and off since the mid 1970's. He received a BA in ceramic sculpture from Western Washington University in 1980 and a second BA in Cinematography from Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California in 1983. He has been sculpting ceramic masks and wall sculptures since the mid-1980s and began making ceramic landscape reliefs in 2007. Steve has shown his work in Southern California and throughout the Pacific Northwest. He currently works out of his studio located on Fox Island, WA