Centered - Focus on Clay and Creativity

Thoughts about my pots and the creative process.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Carbon Trap Shino

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It's been a great year - with lots of gas firings and three wood firings as well as my workshops at MISSA.  I have been really intereste...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Ending with a Whimper - 5th Firing Oct 2011

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I was keeping my fingers crossed that the warm weather would hold until I could do another firing at the end of Oct. It did but the day end...
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Thursday, November 10, 2011

Fourth Firing - Heat and Humidity - Sept 2011

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We had been spending a lot of time on our farm, making trails for the woodlot tour in October to see our butternut grove. Butternuts  in Nor...
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Monday, November 7, 2011

Third Firing of the Newfoundout Kiln - June 2011

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The end of June firing was great - it was very hot and sunny with no wind. It was the first time that I was able to use a lot of pine, most...

Handbuilder Extraordinaire - Vince Pitelka - MISSA Part IV

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The second week was handbuilding with Vince Pitelka and learning all sorts of new techniques. I have never been a fan of coiling as I find i...
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Pots in Motion - Steven Hill - MISSA Part III

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Between 1985 and 2000 I had taken a 15 year hiatus from pottery and what a change had occurred in those years!  Brown pots where out, colour...
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In Dec 2009 I renamed my first blog to Centered - Focus on Clay and Creativity - as I have finished my year long journey workshop with Steven Hill. The focus will continue to be on thoughts about my work - about creativity, design and function................... I have been making pottery off and on for 40 years, exploring many different aspects of ceramics. I named my pottery business after "The Newfoundout" - the secluded valley high in the Opeongo Hills of eastern Ontario where we own an abandoned farm and where in 2007 I built a wood-fired kiln. I normally fire in a gas kiln in Deep River, Ontario, at the Deep River Potters' Guild, but do several wood firings in the summer. This blog originally documented my year long "journey workshop" with Steven Hill. It was an incredible "journey" which had a profound effect on my work and as was the North Bay mentorship. I highly recommend this type of workshop to anyone who is interested in exploring their work and creativity.
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