Fostering a new renaissance through creativity, authenticity, spirituality, and art
My friend Roberta shares time in the same pottery studio as me on Tuesday mornings. She is shown above with her husband– she’s Brazilian and her husband is from India– and knowing her in Newtown, CT makes the world feel wonderfully small.
Here is what our younger daughter has made recently in pottery…
These are just a few of the vases I have made, but it is a particular delight to be using them lately for spring flowers!
I recently made the large scrafitto popcorn bowl, and the carved vase. Our youngest daughter made the amazing teapot of a dragon emerging from an egg.
Outrageously, I got all these pottery books from my husband for Christmas. I’m looking forward to delving into them. Thank you, James!
I made these two “soup and half sandwich” trays for my husband for Christmas. Both of these pieces represent progress for me technique-wise.
I have been working in the pottery studio on sgraffito pots which you saw here on this blog. I was so enthused by this process that I researched other artists that do this kind of work and found really only two artists, one from Maine who does really detailed work in black and white that … Read more
I’ve been wanting to try this technique for some time. Sgraffito is the process of scraping away underglaze while a pot is leather hard to reveal the clay underneath, before it is bisque fired. In the case of these three pots, I used colored underglaze, and scraped down to the white clay with a tiny … Read more
It’s pretty embarrassing, but I’ve spent 21 years in my authentic retro kitchen with an ugly fan over my stove that I haven’t used in decades, and most of those years the fan has been covered with duck tape because it is incredibly drafty in the winter. A year ago, I finally had a wonderful … Read more
We had some intense days working on helping our daughter move in but ate wonderful burritos and spicy calamari at Alto Cinco, and had delicious egg sandwiches at Mom’s Diner (green booths below.) We visited the Food Co-op, and the hardware store twice. I was fascinated with the modern art left behind by a multitude … Read more
My most recent hand-thrown bowls are these top two. The three blue hand-thrown pieces beneath were made by our sixteen year old daughter, but I love the frog she made the best! Currently she’s painting lifelike lizards on a bowl she threw; I can’t wait to see how that comes out.
This bowl took me a long time to make but I am happy with the result. First I threw it on the wheel, and then carved the foot on it and painted the …
It took me months to make these 11 pieces of pottery for Christmas presents, a project whose scope I underestimated but completed in time to mail mid-December.
I enjoyed going to this Connecticut Clay Artist’s show. Some of this work was done in the same studio I have time in on Tuesday mornings. Pottery is a…
I made these four pottery trays, experimenting with glazing techniques. The square one was texturized and dipped in glaze, the longer oblong one had…
I’m pleased with this most recent bowl I made, both the shape and the glaze. I carved out the bottom as is shown below…
Here is the newest bowl I’ve made. It was my first attempt at spatter painting with glazes… Also shown are two things our youngest daughter made.