Centered - Focus on Clay and Creativity

Thoughts about my pots and the creative process.

Friday, November 23, 2012

Fusion Mentorship - October Meeting

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Well I had 5 weeks to ponder, to make and to fire my pieces for the October meeting. The whole meeting was sort of like Christmas morning wi...
Saturday, November 17, 2012

Imagine - How Creativity Works - Part 2: Unconcealing the Working Memory

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In his book Johan Lehrer explains about the second essential tool of the creative process - the working memory. The prefrontal cortex of the...
Monday, November 12, 2012

Imagine - How Creativity Works. Part I: Insights

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The Fusion mentorship program has made me think about creativity and so when I came across this book in our library - 'Imagine - How Cre...
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Friday, November 9, 2012

What if?

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I often make a bunch of little kiln fillers that I don't spend a lot of time on - like small extruded vases and olive canoes - usually f...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Fusion Mentorship with Keith Campbell

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Fusion - the Ontario Clay and Glass Association has offered its second Fusion mentorship program. It will run from Sept 2012 until the summe...
Monday, September 24, 2012

Salt Soda and Wood - A Success - Part III

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For my part I had to scramble to get pots that I really liked for the show. My last two wood firings at  the beginning of June and July were...
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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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