SPRING!

This has been a very long winter here
in the Hudson Valley.

I can now see that the forsythia
at end of my street is "yellowing up",
and, closer at hand, these bulbs are
sprouting in my garden.

Glazing

Time to start glazing.
January is a slow-start month, always.

The white bisque is little like facing
a blank canvas or paper.

I am looking forward to seeing some
new work come out of the kiln!

SPRING CLASSES

Spring classes will resume April 13th. (Info. in the box at the right)
Here are some images from last Saturday's class. I hope some of you
will join us next session!

My husband took this photo of some sedum autumn joy on a
cold but sunny day.

Beauty like this does help us get through these very
cold days (along with lots of hot chocolate, etc.)

I received this image of my bowl from

some friends who I gave it to as a wedding

gift. It really looks great on their counter,

and the pears inside really make it come

alive!

I just started using this red stoneware, and plan to expand
my use of it in the coming year.

This angel figure, created by a very talented Polish clay sculptor,
Margaret Wozniak, was created in 2000. Around the figure's
robe are little sketches that evoke the artist's adopted home,
New York City-a yellow cab, various buildings, including the
twin towers.

As I take it out each year, I reflect back to a more innocent time.
She traded it for one of my large salad bowls, at a craft sale held
at a studio a couple of blocks away from the World Trade Center.

We have just ended eight years of very dark times in our nation.

Let us all look forward to the coming year and those to follow, with raised hopes ushered in by
positive changes!

I've come to think that the annual requisite potter's
"home sale" has become a way of putting it all out there
to see what I've done over the past year, and hopefully point
to a direction for the coming year as well.

I scheduled it for only one day, and was nervous about
the economic climate, but in the end, I sold more than
last year, and had a lot of first time visitors.