Mina Totino really likes the square plates I make for her. They're simply a clay slab slumped into an old electric frying pan, with the edges tidied up when the clay is firmer. Thinking that if others, and I, would like to paint some more I decided to make a clay mould and simplify the job. So now I have a bisque-fired form and can slump…
I finally unloaded a much-delayed kiln-load this week and my much-recovered husband was able to resume his role as my pot photographer. The work that has waited the longest to be fired is that made by my visitors from Austin, Texas back in October. Their very varied collection of tiles have all turned out well, so now I must pack those up and hope Canada…
Sometimes I forget to just play with my work. Sarah contacted me from Calgary to confess that a soup dish/plate I'd made more than twenty years ago had finally been broken. Her family enjoy the size and shape and could I make another? She knows my work has evolved since then and that I use different clay now. She merely said that she's like two…
In the kiln with the plates painted by the others I had work of my own - some mugs, 7 jug birds, plates and sample 'cookies' of the new underglazes I bought at Seattle Pottery Supply. The mugs are finished with terra sigillata on the outside and the plates and birds are painted when leather hard with my coloured slips. These 3 plates are quickly…