Inlet Handcrafted Pottery

re touching the potter. To me this process is pure magic. I am trying to capture and share the music I see within the things around me. I want to celebrate both the ancient nature of this art and my response to the multifaceted world. I am trying to capture the music within the object. I want to celebrate things that are refined and smooth and coarse and unrefined. Surface texture and decoration are important elements in my work. I impress and inlay, carve and mark with brushes made from animal hair. The result is sometimes ornate and sometime quite plain; keeping in mind that no texture is also texture, but it all reflects the sun and sand and stones and wind and sea. After all is said, it is a serving bowl or a cup. It holds our vegetables and our mashed potatoes; it holds our morning coffee, our evening tea or wine shared with friends. It sits in the center of our gatherings of family and friends. It is itself the unity between and among us. Or it may serve as a decoration creating a certain feeling in our living room. It is in these uses, the presence of these objects in our lives, that these stone objects are given life