Copper red and matte white glazes
9" high x 4" diameter
Copper red and shino glazes
17" high x 8" diameter
Copper green glaze
17" diameter
Cone 10 Reduction Stoneware
Shino Glaze
I began making these carved forms after spending a week at the beach with my family. At the time, I did not realize how deeply the patterns I saw during that vacation would affect my clay work. I looked at shells, sand, water ripples, even the repetition of trees in the forests that we explored. Maybe it was the good feeling of that time that I have been trying to recapture in these pieces, or maybe I’m trying to make more permanent in the solidity of fired clay some of the ephemeral and always changing beauty that appears and disappears in the natural world.
All of my pots and tiles start on the wheel. I throw them very thick so I can then carve away large areas of clay, leaving raised ridges that undulate in sinuous curves. After the first firing, I spray several glazes on each piece so there is a wide range and depth of color and texture. I find that I can look at a finished bowl or vase or platter and see only a little of what that pot has to offer at first. When I look from a different angle or in different light, or I’m in a different mood, I can enjoy a new aspect of the piece. While the actual pot will no longer change, I find that, like a rainbow or pattern in the sand soon to be washed away by a wave, the pot will continue to fascinate because it’s never the same.
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