WHAT'S NEW? Winter 2009 -2010

STUDIO/STORE INFORMATION

Custom-made dinnerware and 100 different production pieces, in 12 different glaze colors are available at the studio. CATALOGS OF PRODUCTION WARE are available at the studio or by phoning 574.534.1162.

PLEASE VISIT US!

1100 Chicago Ave. Goshen, IN 46528

Hours: Mon-Sat 9am - 5 pm; Thurs til 6pm

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Dick's toll free: 1.800.952.6670

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More about works available for sale on this web site:

In addition to some saggar-fired, side-fired, and summer-wood-fired works, I have added several dozen new works that I made in the autumn of 2009. They were fired in the Notre Dame University "anagama" wood-burning kiln. The fire was started on a Saturday evening. It was kept burning by teams of stokers, 24/7, until Sunday morning a week later. The firing used more than 7 cords of wood. The surfaces on the works were a result of the accumulation of wood-ash on the pieces: no glaze was applied to the exteriors of the pots.

Inspired by pottery that I saw in Japan, I have waited a decade to attempt to make works from that period of inspiration.

My friend, Mr. Kanzaki, speaks of inspiration as "chasing the image". For him that means being inspired by a shape or form which interests him...then waiting. All through the waiting, he thinks about the shape, and 'chases' the many thoughts and impressions that it brings to him. Soon the pot that Mr. kanzaki imagines no longer looks anything like the work that first inspired him. He chases the image "into my soul and spirit" to find a form that represents his own heart -- this is what I have tried to do by waiting a decade to attempt these "new" forms.

Click the "ceramics for sale" link at the top of this page to see the newest work.

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