Thursday, July 21, 2011

Bowls of all sizes




This production has seen a lot of bowls, small bowls, mid size, big and bigger. I don't throw anymore because throwing is too hard on my skin, being a redhead, skin needs are considerable. Anyway, my bowls are pinched or coiled. This year, I have been cutting down the sides to facet or just chop at with a saw blade, other surfaces are scratched and scraped with other kinds of tools. The decor is first a swirl of iron oxide with a terrific new Chinese mop like brush. Sometimes the oxide is liquidy sometimes pretty dry, but always intense. Then comes an ash glaze, or a satin whitish glaze poured on, and lastly, wood ash swirled on top. The ash glaze I am using right now is turquoisey breaking to green, olive, sometimes with yellow crystals where it is thick. The white glaze is a very simple [ 2 ingredients] shino is tones of orange, violet, green where there is ash and white in the gaps. The sizes are from tea bowl size to 17" in diameter. Prices vary accordingly. Come and see them at my studio in Val David, EspaceKao, in Val David or at 1001Pots, also in Val David. Bowls are always a pleasure to make, the idea of containing, like cupped hands encourages thoughts of offering, sharing, even the gesture of holding a bowl is so beautiful. A bowl is the basic pot, we all use bowls.

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