Collection: Roger Neufeld

About the Artist

Roger Neufeld

Roger lives in Red Deer, where he has learned pottery skills at city art classes, and various workshops. He continues to learn and grow by participating in the Red Deer Pottery Club. 

His first foray into decorative art was unsuccessful. At the age of 4 he nibbled the plastic piping on the upholstery of his parents’ new car into a scalloped pattern that in his judgment was a marked improvement. No one agreed, and his work was put under seat covers. The untitled work is lost to us. 

After a long hiatus, he ventured into wood sculpture around 1994, inspired by the beautiful appearance of a slab of compressed-grain redwood found at a roadside lumber shop in California. The resulting sculpture was a pleasure to work on from the standpoint of the sheer sensory elements of the medium - the heft, the surfaces, and the colour and feel of the wood. At the same time, the shape illustrated a mathematical abstraction (circles inscribed within circles), offering a pattern that might trigger associations to human experiences. These three concerns - qualities of the material, abstractions that it might express, and the associations it might trigger remain his windows into art - his own and others’. 

Since around 2018 he works in pottery, seeking to build wheel-throwing, hand-building and other skills, and turn them into satisfying pieces. Exploring techniques that are new to him is what keeps him most engaged. His pieces have previously been shown in two of Red Deer’s Gallery spaces.