7.10.2012

Porcelain Workshop

Sophie's work after the first firing.

Our work after the first firing.

Ok, not porcelain, but I am glazing a red clay piece I made earlier.

My porcelain ruffle pots under wraps.

Sophie making a spoon.

Some of Sophie's many plates and bowls.

Making glaze test tiles.

Two of my porcelain bowls after first firing with glaze on waiting for final firing.
I've been studying ceramics with Ingrid Bathe for a few months now, and my artist friend Sophie Truong got interested in the idea of learning to work in porcelain. So Ingrid put together a mini-workshop for us last week. We learned the basics of porcelain and the pinching process that Ingrid uses to make her work. Sophie took to it like a duck to water and made a scad of beautiful things...bowls, spoons, plates. I was over at Ingrid's studio yesterday to glaze and everything came out of the first firing okay...so we shall await the final firing. We really learned so much. It was my introduction to porcelain too, since I have only worked so far with red and white clay. Ingrid is a wonderful teacher, allowing for the natural process of making to unfold. She is also a gracious hostess, and fed us wonderful lunches at her backyard picnic table, surrounded by the strolling chickens. I feel so grateful to know these wonderful artists and to share time with them on a regular basis.

6.25.2012

Karen Margolis








For some of these works Karen Margolis uses old worn out road maps that have been watercolored and then "bored into"  using a soldering iron. There are layers of these maps set on top of each other. For the paintings on paper Margolis is exploring "what thoughts and emotions might look like in the brain". She says: "I translate my interior monologues into molecular patterns of color". The intimacy of these works is so appealing, and especially knowing what she is concerned with recording. 

6.18.2012

Olson House








Here is a funny little black and white album of photos I took at the Olson House in Cushing, Maine. You know how I love that place. I took a visiting friend down there last week. She got me hooked on Instagram...uh oh. So I took these with my iPhone and then monkeyed around with various apps, and here is what I got. The amazing thing about Instagram and all these apps is that it's like having photoshop in your phone...and not having to really learn it to use it! Can you say "time suck"?

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