Where do I get Inspirations?

I am inspired by nature, animals and my garden.

I love my Red Echinacea or cone flower that inspired this bowl
 

First I throw the bowl on my potters wheel

  I allow it to harden up for a day

then I go about cleaning up the bottom

of the bowl.  Then I  sculpt and apply the

accents to the bowl.

Each item is one of a kind

and hand made from scratch.

This violet bowl inspired by this...

Then they are slowly dried so they

do not crack.  Once dried the details

are again fine tuned by hand.

Inspired by Daisy's

in my Garden.

They are then bisque fired.

Once they come out they are then

glazed by hand.  The glaze is carefully applied

around the details.  Some glazes cannot be applied

over others because I don't like how they

look after they are fired.  So there is a lot

of meticulous painting of the glaze to ensure

the end result is what I want.

A a minimum of 3 coats

of glaze are applied in each color.

Then they are glaze fired.

This poppy bowl inspired by

Poppies pictured below.  Just like in

nature each item is one of a

kind and different in it's

creation. A different shape or a

different thickness. 

I hope to make ordinary objects such

as a bowl look pretty.

They are all glazed with non-toxic

food safe glazes.

So they can be used with food or

to hold simple objects on your furniture.

I hope you can appreciate

how each of my creations

is made one at a time with

much care and

attention to detail.