Anyone who works with porcelain appreciates its somewhat capricious nature. One the one hand, it is beautiful, fragile and gently translucent. On the other it is extremely fussy, changeable and quite unforgiving of any lack of attention.
The "NAUTILUS IMPERFECT" series was designed to celebrate porcelain in all its moods. I also added pieces of prior work to give it a timeless, re-cycled edge.
The piece at right is from the "Connections" series. They are meditations on the journey of life with all the choices we make and the things we lose touch with and leave behind. Connections made, missed and broken.
This is one of my personal favorite patterns from the "Maritime Blues" collection, as well as one of the most difficult patterns to create.
SKINNER BLENDS AND PORCELAIN
I have recently begun exploring the use of Skinner Blends with real clay. As many of you might already know, Judith Skinner invented this process in 1992 as a way to color polymer clays. I began thinking of how it could be translated to porcelain and clay. Turns out, it works very well.
Coloring clay this way is so fast and easy that most students have mastered it during the first few hours so we can spend the rest of the workshop time learning to use the colors in our work. I have decided to concentrate my future Workshops on this process since it holds so much potential for development.
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