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Available for Purchase

Tall Open Vessel

Stoneware (residual salt)
Art dimensions: 27.5"x 16.75" x 16.75"
$850

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"My ceramics are comprised of two very different, yet related, bodies of work. One group of work consists of clay vessels that were thrown on the potter’s wheel, then further manipulated off the wheel and, finally, fired in a residual salt-vapor reduction atmosphere to cone 1 (approximately 2100 degrees f.). The second body of work is a series of clay paintings that are composed of unfired clay (which has been stabilized with acrylic or oil binders) and a variety of other materials that have been applied to wood panels. In these pieces, images are slowly built up using clay and other materials such as oil and acrylic paints, enamels, graphite, powdered pigments, wax and gold leaf.

The vessels are intended to evoke a sense of timelessness, stability and ease. Their forms and surfaces are inspired simultaneously by early neolithic storage vessels and the natural world. There is for me a curious intersection between the enduring, seemingly timeless character of those early vessels and the fleeting, yet wonderful, impermanence of phenomena in the natural world. The relationships between scale and form in the work are an effort to accentuate the sense of quiet presence."

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