Friday, June 1, 2018

Summer/Fall Workshop Schedule


I'm happy to announce the summer/fall workshop series here at my home and studio...
these will be hand building events, with the idea that you will work throughout the weekend with my assistance to improve your skills, lose some fears and learn how to heavily texture slabs and then make some great pots with the results... I'll demonstrate hump, tube, clay mold and wooden shape techniques to offer you a variety of ways to quickly improve your abilities and help you achieve some scale you might not have felt comfortable reaching for... my idea is to create an immersion experience where through working, talking, eating and cooking together for 3 days we learn a lot and share in the joy of making pots in a nice atmosphere...

Weekend Workshop Dates: July 20-22....Aug.17-19....Sept 14-16
Cost: $300 + $75 for food...all clay included

Week Intensive / Immersion Date: Oct. 12-18
Cost: $700 +$175 for food...all clay included

I have 4-5 available beds here in my home for attendees, tent space on 36 acres for the young at heart
and B&B's in Rangeley Maine, 20 minutes up the road for more private lodging...

we'll eat well, celebrate and have a great time...please consider it...
spend some time in the summer or fall in the western mountains of Maine...

Contact/ Sign Up...
bogpond@tds.net....207-639-5327... 63 Bog Pond Road, Phillips, Maine  04966


Thursday, May 31, 2018

Saturday, May 26, 2018

Friday, May 25, 2018

Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Oval Thermal Vent Pot

 Oval Thermal Vent Pot
21in.H x 8in.W x 7in.D
Wood Fired Stoneware
$4,500


Monday, May 21, 2018

Flame Path Tray

Flame Path Tray
28in.W x 13in.H x 2in.D
Wood Fired Stoneware
$950

I'd like to clarify a few things here if I may...
the colors on these trays and all the unglazed wood fired pots posted here
come exclusively from wood ash...period...
wood ash, wadding, fire and red stoneware clay...
there are no stains, colorants or other chemicals of any kind used here,
not that there would be anything wrong with that if there were...
just and only wood ash...that's it!!!
I have been lectured to by a number of so called wood firing "experts" that
there is "no way" this is from ash...
I have not been included in shows centered on ash in wood firing
because my pots "were not exclusively ashed"...
even had someone once insist these were not wood fired
 because they don't look like wood fired pots... really!!!
so... once and for all these colors come from ash...
yes they do... it's that simple...