![]() After sculpture classes ended for the day he walked over to the ceramics department to throw pots for as long as he was allowed, only to return first thing in the morning as the janitors arrived to open the building – the first signs of his unrelenting work ethic and self discipline. He attended the Edinburgh College of Art (ECA ) from 1958-61studying sculpture under Eric Schilsky and as a secondary subject ceramics, with his teacher Katie Horsman. He was a welder aboard ship having previously been an apprentice carpenter (1947-51) – skills that served him as an artist and contributed to his fearless approach to material, whether metal, wood or ceramics.Ĭlay became his most-loved medium, expressed through a diverse and vast oeuvre sealing his legacy as one of Scotland’s greatest ceramic artists. Died: North Berwick, East Lothian in 2018ĭave Cohen arrived in Scotland in 1958, having proudly served in the US Navy (1953-57) aboard the destroyer USS Hale. Ceramic artist who was as skilled a teacher as he was a craftsman.ĭave Cohen, Ceramic Artist-Craftsman.
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