Artist Biography

Isabel Wynn is a Brazilian-born, Vancouver-based ceramic artist and sculptor whose practice explores the body, control, failure, and the tension between structure and collapse. Born in São Paulo, Brazil, and raised in Steveston, British Columbia, Wynn began working with clay in 2011. Her practice has since developed into a sculptural language rooted in wheel-thrown stoneware, where forms are stretched, distorted, manipulated, and pushed beyond their intended structure.

Wynn holds a Technical Diploma in Fine Arts from Langara College and studied Visual Art at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, with a focus on ceramics and printmaking. She has worked professionally as an artist and ceramic educator for over a decade, including six years teaching ceramics in Vancouver. In 2021, she founded Bahoo Studio, a pottery school and mentorship-based studio that operated until 2025.

Her sculptural practice moves beyond the conventions of functional ceramics, using the vessel as a point of departure rather than an endpoint. Through exaggerated forms, layered surfaces, and experimental glaze processes, Wynn investigates ideas of vulnerability, interiority, and permeability. Her work is held in private and public collections, including the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Wynn lives and works on the Sunshine Coast, where she continues to develop a practice centred on the physical and psychological possibilities of clay.