Peter Powning, a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, has several times been nominated for the Saidye Bronfman Award. Powning has been selected to participate in numerous invitational events internationally, most recently the 2005 Florence Biennale. He has been featured in magazines and journals from MacLeans to Ceramics Monthly, as well as interviewed by Peter Gzowski and documented on CBC's Artspots.

"I work principally in glass, clay and bronze. They all involve transformation by fire. A good deal of the work I have been engaged in over the last few years deals with metaphor based on ideas concerning balance,
fragmentation and transformation. The work is meant to have the feel of the artifact: an emotional artifact made solid, a cultural artifact from some future/past, reconstructed or guessed at. Some parts are original, some new, others are assumed."