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Wavy Vases

This is the set of wavy vases in my last post.  I threw the sides, altered them after they set up a little and then put bases on all of them.

New Designs

Here are some new designs I have been working on.

Kiln Opening

Opening a kiln after a glaze firing can be an anxious moment.  After seeing the pieces on the top shelf I was very happy.  Most of the pieces were glazed in my blue glaze by itself or layered over tenmoku.

New Designs

While working on the usual pieces I try to experiment with new designs.

This is a curved box that I have been working on.  The box design is based on a piece of foam that we found on a beach in Kauai.  I think it is a piece of foam from the hull of a boat that broke apart.  The foam was really beat up by the sea and the elements.  It has taken on a beautiful and unique shape.

This is the piece of foam.

This is the second box that I built. The first attempt came apart slightly at one of the seams.  After putting more supports and coils along the seams on the inside of the box it came out well.  My idea is to make a set of these in different sizes.  The texture on the top of the box is from the bottom of the foam piece after it was pressed into the clay.

A customer asked me to make a long narrow piece for the center of her long dining room table.  First I threw the wall of the piece on a large bat.

After letting the clay set up a little bit, I removed the wall from the bat and then I elongated it so that it is around 28 inches or 71.2 cm.

Then I attached the slab bottom to it.

Voila!

Cape Cod Museum celebrates legacy of Harry Holl

Scargo Pottery was alway a place of inspiration for me from the time I went there for the first time in the 70's until today.  You can see some of the influence in my work and I even use a few of their glazes.

The Cape Cod Museum of Art is having an exhibit and celebration of Harry Holl's work.

http://www.capecodtimes.com/article/20160422/ENTERTAINMENTLIFE/160429772

David Walters, Franschhoek, South Africa

I recently came back from a trip to South Africa where I had the chance to visit with various ceramicists.  On a visit to Franschhoek, which is a beautiful little town in the local wine region, I had a chance to visit David Walter's studio and gallery.  It is the type of gallery and studio that most ceramicists dream of having.  David and his daughter, Sarah, create beautiful functional pottery.
Here are some images of their pieces.  Enjoy!