One of the really fun things about my job is that I get to go to the homes of some of the artist's whose work we carry at Passionflower. One such outing took me to the very charming home of potter Mary Briggs who is going to have a show in our upstairs attic gallery this coming Friday.
It's like she's scratching the drawing onto the pot.
And another thing that happens when I visit is I get to see what else they might be up to- what they're incubating.
Here's a spectacular flower frog that she made of a brown cow. We sold this piece last year.
I wish I had a better picture. The glaze had big solid crackles all over it. Everything was perfect about it. It was maybe 8 or 1o inches tall.
Be still my beating heart!!!! A woman and a minotaur. Mary wants to turn these into lamps.
Leda and the Swan. I asked Mary if these would be ready for the show but alas and alack she said she is having some problems with them. Pottery can be so fickle. I'm not sure I could tolerate working on something for so long and then having it come to naught because the glaze did something wierd, or something exploded, or one of any number of things that can happen. I guess if you're a potter you get lots of practice in turning over control to the forces that be and letting go.
But I definitely digress. In the meantime, I hope you have a chance to check out the show Mary is curating upstairs at the store. It will feature her pottery displayed in a very,( well how shall I tempt you ?) well a very peasant, boar hunting lodge kind of a way (if that's at all tempting).
The show will be up through most of the month of October.
jEWEL,
ReplyDeleteYou should have put a photo of Mary's sweet little face in this group. Maybe she was too shy.
GR