Light Art and Design Gallery

Here is a link to the invitation:
For the Birds 

Spring Show is up now at 

Light Art and Design until June 11th. 

Beautiful gallery beautiful show!

Chickadee and Dogwood 14" wall hanging platter
this platter isn't actually in the show, but similar work is.

Tanager and Golden Roses. 14"x8"

Crook's Corner

I've been working on new pieces for my upcoming show at Crook's Corner in Chapel Hill, NC.  This is very exciting to me for many reasons.  I used to work at Crook's many years ago, first when it was the BBQ local fun spot and then when it was reinvented by the legionaries in the foodie world,  Bill Neal and Gene Hamer.  Not only is this place always fun, but the food is fantastic.  For the past 17 year or so Bill Smith has been the chef. You have to check out his cookbook Seasoned in the South, yum!!
In early May, Crook's Corner was awarded The James Beard Foundation  America's Classics Award!
Back in 1984 (?), Gene Hamer asked me if I wanted to have a show at Crook's. This was to be the first of many shows at the restaurant. At the time I was mainly making sculptural work. The challenge was to develop wall works, and ever since my work has been predominately wall works. Thanks Gene! 

Carving Magpies, new cloud wall hanging shape

Chicken cloud plates. These are getting glazed,
that pink color is a red glaze, unfired.

Various cloud pieces, these are getting
under-glazed painted and carved.

New shapes, clouds.  These rabbits are in the bisque state,
I'm not sure how I will glaze it.

carving pieces

Magpies on left, Owl and Cherry Blossoms, rt.

not sure where this is going, still painting it.

Peacock

Whale

Building cloud shapes, this is the third type of shape I've tried.

Slip painting

Night Vision

I had the opportunity to visit this mural in its new home.  The woman who bought it had her wall painted and wanted me to rehang the mural.  This was one of the first multiple part pieces I've made, and it was a treat to see it again after a few years and to get a picture.   The house is in a gorgeous spot  in the county with huge windows that  look out over a beautiful pasture on the edge of a pond. The collector loves the piece and I loved seeing in that setting. What could be nicer? 

Hummingbirds

It is about that time, the hummingbirds will be returning and I've just put some new pieces up on my Etsy site. I hope you will take a look! 

Rabbit Paintings

Two of these rabbit pieces (the top, black rabbit and the bottom, Mischief)  I donated to the annual Women's Center art show. I think this is the 12th year that I have donated to this fundraiser.  Here is a link to an article about the show.  This was rather exciting for me, it was the first time I showed any of my paintings in public, other than in my studio and they both sold!

Small Bird Tiles

I started this series of tiles when I was contacted by the NC Audubon Society to make a special tile for the T. Gilbert Pearson Society. These members are donors that provide Audubon North Carolina with its most critical source of funding.

The tile I made for them was a carved wall piece of a Prothonotary Warbler and Roses.  After the commission was complete I decided to carve some more tiles, so now I have four birds in the series.

Who Cooks For You?

Working on a few owl pieces.  The first picture is the under-glazing, then they are bisque fired, glazed with many glazes and over-glazes and refired to 2000 degrees.

St. Valentine

Valentines Day will be here soon.  Wishing everyone a Happy Valentine's Day!  I have some new wall pocket hearts over on my Etsy page!

100 TEAPOTS V

I'm excited to have 2 of my wall hanging teapot pieces in the 100 Teapots V show at Baltimore Clayworks.
This is a national show, juried by Nick Joerling.  There is a beautiful slide show of the work on their web site. 

Jurors Statement:
My dictionary says a teapot is “A covered pot with a spout.” I smile at the judiciousness of that definition, like characterizing a human being as an upright body with a face. Buried in both succinct summations is the rich unending variety of mechanics, spirit, aesthetics, emotion, intellect. I like the blue-collar aspect of pots, that they do the every day work of carrying, containing, delivering, but can also “step out” and stimulate the mind and imagination. I like the pots that make good use of the constraints of utility, and I like the pots that push against those boundaries: pots that entertain some dicey possibilities. In my own studio I hope for pots that have qualities of sensuality, empathy, humor and risk.    -Nick Joerling

100 TEAPOTS V

January 15-February 27, 2011
Opening: Saturday, January 15, 2011, 6:00–8:00PM

The year of the Rabbit--

not that I need any excuses to make rabbit pieces!