This is a recent vase I made. It's slab-built, meaning I rolled out flat slabs of clay, cut the front and back and bottom out from a paper pattern I'd made, pieced the clay pieces together, then added the top curved rectangle shape to the vase opening. Before I started applying glaze to the vase, … Continue reading blue-striped vase 3.30.2017
I've been drawing and painting and carving spirals on and in to clay. To go with the cups I showed in my post from last week, I made this platter. And here is my friend Kitten trying to get in on the action during the photoshoot:)
This is a vase... or a wooden spoon holder... or a paintbrush keeper... that I made at the Adamah workshop a couple months ago.It measures, in inches, 6.5 high by 8 wide by 3 deep. It's hand built from a slab of clay, and I left the seam of clay, near the left side of … Continue reading painter of clay 7.21.2016
I found a rusting, flat piece of metal on the street a couple months ago, and thought it'd look great on a ceramic piece. Because I wanted a large, flat area to display the metal, I built this vase out of rolled-out clay slabs. On newspaper, I sketched out a design, folded it in half … Continue reading earth and metal 4.20.2016
This is a piece that I made a few months ago, and after the first bisque firing, let it sit on the shelf for much longer than usual. I couldn't decide how to glaze it. My final choice was matte black, and I love how it turned out. This is made from slabs of clay … Continue reading treasure box 4.13.2016
Rachel Imsland, Artist 