That Patsy Cline song, Crazy, came to mind today as I look out the window at another rainy day!
Peace out!
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| David Lawrence Fry |
Isn’t this gorgeous!!! Too WOW!!! for words! Feast your eyes and enjoy and learn more about David Lawrence Fry’s work here. Click her for David Fry Ceramics website for more great work!
After receiving my new stamp from www.tools4clay.com it took several attempts before I got the correct stamping procedure nailed!
Think I’ve finally got it!!!
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| Emile Decoeur |
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| Pierre Pacton |
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| Delphin MasseurFor More Information click on this link! |
I’m ready for the challenge.
I haven’t put any of my work in a gallery for sale until today!
I now have a few pieces displayed at Sheoak Gallery in Fingal.
Song lyrics often pop into my head when I contemplate my frame of mind. Today it’s “Heaven, I’m In Heaven”. The title of the song aptly describes what I’ve looked at today!
I feel that to do good pottery I need to be able to “feed my soul”!
How does one accomplish this?!
For me, it’s solitude- time to think.
I’m constantly feeding my brain with images from books, facebook, blogs …. But now I need time to digest all that imagery, so that I can push in a better direction.
So stir up a mango margarita (I have plenty of mangoes that have dropped from the trees- damn storm!!!) and sit back and look at that gorgeous blue sky. Feed my soul with inner contemplation!!!
I love this work! Gives me new inspiration for stamped hand-built pieces!
Work by Marie-Christine Denniel- France
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| Adrien Dalpayrat ©Jason Jacques Gallery Too bad this guy has been dead and gone since 1910! Because if he were still around, I’d like to have a good chat with him about how he achieved such beautiful glazes!! |
I’m constantly gobsmacked by the potters that historically developed such beautiful glazes, but we are still working to achieve similar glazes today. Too bad that we can’t pass along such valuable information. Oh well, if it were easy we would all be doing it, right?!
At any rate, here’s an image showing the genius of Adrien Dalpayrat, the French ceramicist, who has been virtually forgotten until the ’60s. Seems that financial woes have ended many a ceramicists’ brilliant careers.
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| Adrien Dalpayrat ©Jason Jacques Gallery |
According to Jason Jacques Inc.’s webpage, “He was so well known for his oxblood flambé pottery that the term “Dalpayrat red” was coined to designate his distinctive glaze.”
If you are interested in reading more about Adrien Dalpayrat, check out these links:
The Bohemian
Jason Jacques Inc
In the meantime, I will plod along trying to emulate these great artists!
It’s a conundrum! Adriana Christianson, potter extraordinaire and creator of Mud Colony (a community of pottery bloggers) mentioned the upcoming Pottery Expo in Warrandyte on February 23 and 24!!
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| Adriana Christianson |
I hadn’t heard about it and had definitely not considered going. But now….I WANT TO GO!
It looks like an amazing event with amazing potters.
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| Ric and Judy Pierce |
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| Juliet Widdows |
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| Arnaud Barraud |
I’ve just sent in my registration for Clay Push in Gulgong in April…so now I have another extraordinary opportunity to be amongst great Australian (and French!!) potters and need to decide if I can go!
I’ll have to weigh it all up and see if the monetary gods are smiling in my direction!!
