happy harvest

Just wanted to let you peeps know, I have been interviewed by CJDC news and it will air on our local channel evening news(fort st. john) on tuesday september 15th. A very nice lady kathy mueller, did the interview and i'm hoping i didn't make too much of ann ass of myself. I will link to the segment when I get a copy later. In the meantime though I am preparing for a festive fall at kilnhouse. With the theme being "harvest", I am inspired to create an atmosphere with warm tones and lots of root vegetables and pretty colours on display. Here are some pics of my studio from this weekend, the swiss chard stems are lovely colors, I am also preserving rosehips for the winter. I am working on a series of tall jugs and hope to have many to sell for Christmas. They are inspired by women's dresses.

cupboard installations

this is one of my new cupboard installations. i plan on applying for a bc arts council grant to try and create an entire "kitchen installation" including the fridge stove sink and many many pots! this is my new green cupboard series...

new "reclaimed" work baby!

so i've been workin' my butt off lately, reclaiming my clay. this is something i've put off a long time because it's so much friggin hard work....but in the spirit of acting "environmentally friendly" and also saving money i brought out the big drill with the huge mixer bit, mixed the reclaim daily and dried it on shards of plaster, creating a huge brown mess around my studio and on my clothes. anywho, these are the pots that came from that work...

With my new tumblers I have been focusing on muted tones...gives them a vintage feel.

inspiration

people always ask me what inspires me...it makes me realize that i really am not inspired by other pots. in fact i really try to not look at much pottery or "ceramic art", i find i will subconsciously copy or pick up on elements in their work and i don't like feeling that way. i get my main inspiration from music and fashion and life...the people my friends, relationships troubles and triumphs, late night conversations over wine, analysations about truth and importance, and dreaming...i have a chalkboard in my studio where i write down things people have said that struck some kind of chord of truth or comedy with me.

golden room

So I just got back from my island trip, the money ran out and I didn't make it to Vancouver, that's OK though I feel I saw enough beauty and although it wasn't as much of a "business trip" as I intended, at least I had a full week to just be, to think and to be. Of course as a result of having so much time on my hands I decided to change many things about my life... pottery and otherwise. When I got home last night I cried just from the adjustment of it all not really because I was sad. I am so sentimental and in one week I rekindled my relationship with Vancouver Island even though I deeply trust this place. The one thing that turned my frown upside down was to stand in my golden room. Especially at night, my little gallery just glows a warm golden. It's taken me a long time but I finally have my little room of good energy to share with everyone. Cheesy, yes very.

Some new tumblers I just made and would like to keep myself to drink beer out of!! Also an example of my new necklace series hung on hand dyed silk-pretty pony!