Greenman

This Greenman sculpture using impressions of native Gambel Oak leaves in porcelain clay, was inspired by the medieval English carvings representing pre-Christian images. Cobalt oxide was used to emphasize the vein patterns and background of the oak leaves which combined with Emerald Green glaze to create a beautiful deep blue-green color.

Various Voluminous Vases

All three vases are unglazed. The color comes from the different clays used.

Landscape Vase Series

Hand-built porcelain (with added ball clay) vases are 10" tall and have various combinations of overlapping glazes, such as Bamboo Ash Matte, Celadon Froth, Plum, Agate, Colonial White and Snowflake to create the landscapes.

To achieve the dimensional surface effect on this vase, a wax resist for the branches and layered glazes of Snowflake over Plum were used.

Garden gnome

This gnome has a new home in the garden keeping a watchful eye on the flowers. He was hand-built out of stoneware clay and is about 12 inches tall to the tip of his hat. Laguna's Peach and Dynasty Red cone 5 glazes were used.

A little bit of Utah

 The Sego Lily is the state flower of Utah which is depicted here in clay. The darker base is formed with Utah clay/soil.

 A Hackberry branch was impressed and darkened with a stain made from Dimple Dell, Utah soil.

This tray which is over a foot long, has impressed images also stained with Dimple Dell slip/stain.

Never enough bowls

The clay classes exploration of the plasticity of clay resulted in this collection of free-form/hand-built bowls. Quite beautiful with a glaze combination of Laguna's snowflake over celadon froth. And useful too!

Raku wren

Unfortunately this photo doesn't show all the beautiful iridescence of the glaze as a result of raku firing.

Landscape trays

These trays are over a 12" long. Various glazes such as Laguna's Snowflake, Celadon Froth, Agate and Colonial white have been carefully layered to create the beautiful impression of mountains and sky.

Shield for the wall, turtle for the garden

Both clay creations are about a foot in size. The glazes were mostly Mayco's Stroke & Coat cone 5 with one exception. The red on the shield is Laguna's dynasty red. It is one of the colors of the Lithuanian flag which is what the knight on the horse symbolize.

Toil to coil

 To give you an idea of sizes, the brown coil pot is 14" tall. The neck area of the pot was wheel thrown and then added at the leather hard stage.

This coil pot is 11" tall including lid with knob. The lid was thrown on the wheel and is 10" in diameter. The glaze is Laguna's Agate ^ 5  with an oxidation firing.