Simplicity

I really enjoy this work, the last two pots with their female figures on them, did not connect with the pottery, they were either "on it" "sitting inside it" and both were not really connected to it, the gentle curving motion of the arms around the entrance is important for this connection to be made and this work has it. Its also the simplest composition that I have created lately, the birds anchoring the work, and negative space of the raw pot being left surrounding the figure on purpose. I quite like the simplicity of design, simply a floral wreath of sorts.

Some of the birds are very large and rotund and mirror the shape of the figure and that of the pottery.

Form

Form... again.
With the ceramic vessel I want to create an outer intimate space and also further obscure and make intimate the opening of the form.  The forms are to be globular and rotund, pregnant with life, the forms are feminine in appearance and reference.

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Photos above are of two different pots, the larger one was "thrown back in" to the reclaim bucket, but the smaller one will be made into a new work of art.

FLAMES!

One of the gas kilns at greenwich house pottery

Dip me in Celedon

And so they were left out of my control, good luck my darlings.
I told the studio technician (there are four) that really every work of art at GreenwichHouse is actually a collaborative effort, artists and technicians working together... I have no control over how these two works come out, but I did dip them in glaze so they will have a more throughly covered surface... yes the kind I totally put down before, but am ready to see what the celedon really looks like, I think it will be fine, albeit a bit shiny.

The Pot

Test Tiles

The pot that became the test tiles will NOT be fired, I sadly have now reduced myself to Sundays at Greenwich house so do not have time to actually fire and glaze them... I am already focused on getting myself into City College which is in a few short weeks!!

Anyhoot, here are the greenware tiles.

The two new ones bisqued