Late potter Richard Fairbanks’ collection is given new life.
By: Emily Baer
Published: Dec. 13, 2011
Twenty-five years after her husband — potter and best friend Richard Fairbanks — died at the height of his career, Issaquah painter Dixie Parker-Fairbanks embarked on an artistic journey to blend her husband’s revolutionary ceramics with photos of his Scandinavian architectural muses.
Her method: collage work. Her motive: well, it’s twofold.
Akin to the likes of many great artists before him, the strength and depth of Richard Fairbanks’ body of work only gained widespread recognition — at least in the States — posthumously. (READ MORE…)
