During a break in a recent workshop with Ryan McKearley I started painting on one of the Rustic Buildingplates. One of the workshop participants started watching what I was doing and admired the work. Then she asked “are you an artist or a potter?” What kind of question is that? I threw the plate, so
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Here’s another plate in this series. This is a different view of the same syrup shed I painted a few weeks ago, this plate is a few inches larger at 11 inches. I like painting the larger plates better as I can get more detail and show the vastness of the fields. I’ve also been
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…how was this process going to fill a three day workshop and who is Ryan McKearley anyway?
I wanted to decorate a raku pot using feathers and horse hair. I didn’t want to buy the perfect feathers in a craft store because it seems weird and I hate shopping.
Being around the shed is a reminder of times long past; seeing it’s decline reminds me of our impermanence.
I’m working on a new series of pots called “Emergence.” The idea came to me from seeing walls where the brick had been hidden by plaster.
This is my vegetarian version of a recipe that was originally posted by The Poineer Woman.
think of this place as a state park; you want to leave it a little bit better than you found it.
When creating art, I often turn to nature for inspiration; using natural images and earthy colors, giving people another way to view nature.
I’ll be assisting the Piedmont Park Conservancy in presenting Paul McCartney to the city of Atlanta as part of the conservancies green awareness initiative.
