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Tea Bowl

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New mugs.

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Whales

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New Bowls.

#14feet #plank #sonomacounty #pottery #stoneware #conetenreduction

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Firing the kiln.

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Work in Progress

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Vintage postcards from Japan explaining the ceramic process.

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New wall work.

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Cloverdale moon jars

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Scaredy Cat.

2023

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New sculpture.

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Curtain Call 2024.

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Ready to fire!

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100 for Helene

Won’t you consider helping out Western North Carolina craft artists? The region is one of the strongest areas in the country for craft and Hurricane Helene has taken its toll. I was lucky to study and work at Penland and at Township 10, but mostly I was fortunate to be in a place where craft is so vital and part of everyday life. So many great artists working in their studios. Township 10 is holding an online and in person fundraiser for Craft Futures Fund -WNC Recovery. The show goes live on Friday afternoon at 4pm EST. The link is in my bio. Or if you’re lucky enough to be in the vicinity, you can visit Township 10 in person on Sunday to purchase some beautiful bowls made by the current residents. 100 percent of the proceeds goes to Western North Carolina recovery.

This piece is available on the website tomorrow at 4pm EST.

Will You Take Our Picture

2024

Ceramic

Stoneware, slip, underglaze and poetry

2 pieces

7”h, 8”l, 1.5”w

$375 (includes both pieces)

Will You Take Our Picture is a poem I actually wrote while at Township 10. The complete poem is scrawled on the surface of the two pieces in its entirety. You can’t read the poem while looking at the object, but you can make out some words, and you can feel the poetry inside the shape. At least, that’s what this new work is saying to me.

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whales

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Jar Head

Stoneware, slips and glaze

Soda-fired

Jar Head is a combination of throwing and handbuilding. The base of the jar is from a thrown cylinder that is cut up into long strips of clay when it is leather hard. Then the base was rebuilt into a box using a coiling technique. The head was built on top of the rebuilt box using coiling and paddling technique. The pieces were slipped with porcelain and flashing slips. The interior was glazed. I think of the jar heads as practical and purposeful, a reminder to ourselves that what we contain within us can be the ingredients for discovery and surprise.