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Techniques

How the pots are made:

My pottery is functional in such that I use the forms of every day use as a medium for my creative expression. Each pot is first thrown on the potters wheel. While still wet I enhance the pots surface by impressing on to it, my own hand carved plaster or hardened clay stamps. This process distorts the pot drastically. The next step is to put the pot back on the wheel and manipulate it from its inside to create its final unique shape. The resulting relief images remain in an effort to reach beyond the basics of strictly functional pottery.

 After some drying the wheel thrown pot is then put back on the wheel upside down and any extra clay is removed, trimming a foot ring into it's bottom.  When completely dry, the pots are kiln-fired to approximately 1800 degrees to ready them for glazing.  After glazes have been applied by dipping, spraying and or brushing,  the pot is fired to 2300 degrees and after some cooling the long process is complete.