The British ceramic artist Margaret O’Rorke has forged a new path in pursuit of developing freestanding light sculptures that capitalize on the translucency of porcelain, with impressive results that combine the traditional and the modern with lyricism, boldness, ingenuity and a beauty that reveals her own form of magic. Robert Silberman interviews O’Rorke and highlights her remarkable international career.

Jerome and Evelyn Ackerman made “things we could be proud of that people could afford and get pleasure from putting on their walls or tables.”