hairy green wall!

leather-hard new work setting up...

bisque-fired work after staining (step one of glazing process)

that handmade wreath was no easy feat!

my claim to fame, the green hairy wall!

good old organic beef hamburger sauce on rice with milk :)

so...christmas is coming

in preparation for christmas i am a. not partying and b. working my ass off and c. preparing to host a "kilnhouse christmas party". that's right time for me to lay off the rum and eggnog and work every minute of every day. life is grand. i had a very productive week in the stude. tonight is decorating/wine drinking night for me hehe ok so i'm a hypocrite... i am creating an christmas installation. not the usual store bought christmas decor will you find around here. i will be using only natural decorations as is my habit for every ocassion, no tree will be cut only the bows which i hauled 3 miles this morning from my parents farm. it's true there is probably better ways for me to utilize my time than making chandeliers out of spruce bows and covering walls to create a "bow carpet" but what the hey, i feel inspired to do so :)

pots. fabric. dinner

christmas is coming...aka the only time for an artist like me to make some coin and pay off some freepeople.com debt hah! so i am gettin to work in the studio...in case you didn't know http://www.freepeople.com/ is a very inspirational super fricken awesome clothing company where i pull a lot of inspiration from. my work has always been very influenced by fashion, fabric textures, and of course music...sometimes i think i went into the wrong line of artwork...but then i realize no i loooove clay, why? because you can do ANYTHING with it! you can literally make anything you can imagine! here are some of my new "beer drinkin tumblers" that i just glazed today, i want them to almost look like really pretty sweaters, i like to think of them as pretty yet rough around the edges...it makes them real. not too pretty that you're afraid to use them. an authentic type of beauty...i dunno. anywho i am also framin up a storm and working on some fabric collages, enjoy:) oh yeah and that is my crazy artist dinner tonight.

my interview

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAwRKXCLDIs

30 pots!!!

hi peeps,

recently i have made a deal with myself that i have to make a "huge" pot every single day for thirty days. i don't have to make more than one but they have to be as tall and sometimes as wide as possible. my wee kiln can only hold pieces up to 21" high, but that IS fairly high in fact. especially since i have been making mostly mugs/tumblers and other smallish pieces during the summer. today is day 9 and i am happy with the progress. here are some pics of my journey:)

i am very inspired by clothing and music. with these "sculptural functional" pieces i married the vintage lace texture with song lyrics. each piece has the lyrics of a song either inside or somewhere on the outside, not always easily found but definitley an integral part of the piece.

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...