10.5in.H x 11in.W x 9in.D
$950
Saturday, March 19, 2016
Monday, March 7, 2016
Oval Shino Bottle
15in.H x 20in.W x10in.D
$2,500
a few years back I decided once again to conduct an experiment...
challenging myself to make some work which I thought, that most would agree,
contradicted what I had been doing recently...
it was a way of "checking" myself...
the lava /geological work I am doing is the culmination of 40 years of yearning
to see a piece from my hands of such quality and aesthetic clarity...
I have gotten there, am absolutely thrilled, but seem to be, maybe the only one who believes the validity of that...
many think I have lost my mind
and believe there is no "craftsmanship" in those pieces... I beg to differ...
so I made many and I mean many much more traditional forms
glazed them with a thick, multiple fired shino and searched for a beauty there
that I felt might stand as a counter to the lava pieces...
to "see" if I was correct in my thoughts...
what I found is that you can't escape yourself... the lava pieces were better than I imagined
and the Shino pieces served as a wonderful counter to them when shown together...
they both looked great... especially standing next to each other...
yet .....I can still remember a gallery owner rubbing a large oval shino bowl, definitely it was the best of the bunch, unlike anything I had ever made and asking me...
" Rob, do you have any new work?"...
this large bottle is a fine example of the surfaces possible from multiple firings and many coats of shino glaze in a wood kiln...
it has all the qualities I'm searching for in these shino experiments...
thick globular glaze, intermixed with surface texture, obscuring both and neither...
a hint of carbon in the middle
ash deposits on the shoulder, both melted and not quite...
orange cracks in the glaze coats from layers underneath
and the quiet ancient feel I always love in the good pots...
I hope you might like it...
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Tai chi Shoveling
to dance around my large abdominal hematoma...
luckily no one could see me
somehow, I made it... all the way down...
let the rains come! anyway you like...
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Monday, February 29, 2016
Burled Erosion Vase...
14in.H x 6in.W
$650
sometimes when unloading a kiln special pieces are missed in the cloud of expectations and the storm of showing up somewhere for a show soon... this is one such piece for me...a sweet gem from last fall...thus the repost...
Sunday, February 28, 2016
Whiskey Cup/Climber's Ridges...a reminder
4.25in.H x 4.25in.W
SOLD
a reminder... if you scroll back 3-4 older post's pages at bottom, you will find a nice group of whiskey cups from the kiln firing this past fall...
and a few smaller Shot/saki cups too!
Serving Bowl #12/Reminder
5in.H x 8.5in.W
$200
just a reminder... scrool down to older posts and a few pages and you will find a nice group of serving bowls from the kiln firing last fall...
Saturday, February 27, 2016
Coral Stick
10.5in.H x 48in.W x 6in.D
$3,500
this is a wonderful piece, but is difficult to photograph because of it's length...... I kept a small coral stick, found on the beach, in the studio for 2 years wondering how I might keep it stabile standing up... got nowhere...
just brain locked...then one day a friend asked if I had ever thought of it this way... I made 2 over the next few weeks... this one and a thinner, skinnier one, now owned by old friends
Albert and Tina LeCoff of the Wood Turning Center in Philadelphia... both pieces have remained a favorite of the last number of years of wood firing and they both have attracted maximum attention when they are shown...
thanks A & T... your support has been fantastic...
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