January 12th Workshop

My first workshop of 2019 

"Making Ceramic Shards into Necklaces"

will happen on January 12th from 1 to 4 PM

at

GALLERY on PARK

104 Park Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081

This hands-on opportunity will familiarize you with many

ways to create Art to Wear necklaces with up-cycled

Pottery Shards...Each of these pottery shards 

is a piece of ceramic vision! 

They are an imagined bowl, cup or platter 

headed for the Holiday table or that special pitcher 

used to serve maple syrup on Sunday mornings.  

But somewhere en route to their continued existence,

 they met with an insurmountable hurdle. 

This in no way lessens their value 

as a symbol of a dream. 

Each tumbled smooth tactile clay shard 

embodies the process it took “to become” 

and to make one into a necklace to wear

 is to share in this inexplicable experience.

Please contact Martha Perkins at the Gallery

info@galleryonpark.com

to reserve your spot!

The Holiday Sale at Cheltenham Center for the Arts

I think it's nice to have some idea 

of what you may find at a Fine Craft Showing...

Reena Brooks will have a delightful selection

of colorful handmade scarves...

There will be many bowls to choose from

made by Lucia Welsh, Ellen Pine Litwin and

Carol Allen...

Trust me, you can never have too many BOWLS!

There will be pots that pour and pots with lids...

And MUGS, 

another thing you can never have

too many of...

There will be Clay-to-Wear by Barbara Hanselman

and inventive jewelry by Yvonne Pagel...

AND Amazing Mixed Media Artwork...

So come either Saturday December 1st or 

Sunday December 2nd, 2018 between

11 AM and 4 PM to meet the makers...

AT

Cheltenham Center for the Arts

Ashbourne Road, Cheltenham, PA

215-379-4660

Plan to pay with cash or check...thank you!

A Holiday Sale 2018

I do very few Craft Shows anymore but

I wanted to support the Cheltenham Center for the Arts 

where I teach a Tuesday morning hand building clay class 

and this seemed like a good way to do it. 

This will be an intimate gathering of local artists 

who love what they do and who want to share it with you...

Hope to see you there!

S E X P O T

The perfect gift (filled with flowers) for the person

who considers herself one...

Featured in November...

Two of my best selling INTAGLIO mats 

are Bordered Ginkgo & Paisley.

The Paisley design is the surface patterning 

on this Shamanistic Rattle

with found wood handle...

Both of these mats can be purchased on my Etsy site:

https://www.etsy.com/intaglio-pattern-paisley

https://www.etsy.com/bordered-ginkgo

For the month of November, they will both

be available with free shipping!

The Bordered Ginkgo Leaves tray above 

was made by Linda Selwood,

a good friend and clay student at

Community Arts Center,

Wallingford, PA.

Where You Can Fine My Work...

The Gallery on Park
https://www.galleryonpark.com/

Martha Perkins has recently opened an intimate 

gallery space where you can see my Clay-to-Wear

as well as some of my more functional clay work...

BeaDazzle at Community Arts Center

414 Plush Mill Road, Wallingford, PA

https://communityartscenter.org/gift-shop/

BeaDazzle carries my clay shard necklaces...

Each of these pottery shards is a piece of ceramic vision!

They are an imagined bowl, cup or platter headed for the 

Holiday table or that special pitcher used to serve maple

syrup on Sunday mornings. But somewhere en route

to their continued existence, 

they met with an insurmountable hurdle. 

This in no way lessens their value as a symbol of a dream. 

Each tumbled smooth tactile piece of clay embodies 

the process it took “to become” and to wear one 

is to share in this inexplicable experience.

Wayne Art Center

https://www.wayneart.org/about/your-visit/shop/

The Wayne Gallery Shop has a great

selection of my Clay-to-Wear...

Blue Santa Beads Trunk Shows

and Saturday Make & Take Happenings...

https://www.facebook.com/events/345655212855971/

The Cheltenham Center for the Arts

Gift Shop and Holiday Sale

Let me be the first to announce...

The Cheltenham Holiday Sale 

Saturday December 1st and Saturday December 2nd, 2018 

from 11 AM till 4 PM each day

I will have mostly jewelry at this but will also

bring along some functional clay work

and celebration Rattles...

Be sure to visit the Arts Shop as well!

https://www.facebook.com/CheltenhamCenterfortheArtsShop/

Calico Clay Components

I made a nice selection of Calico Clay Components 

and this ended up being my favorite;

this is side one finished with underglazes

and Designer Liner dots and lines

And this is side two partially patterned with a

rice paper transfer...

I decided to make a necklace using this fun piece

and even ended up using it 'upside down'.

I combined it with a found piece of wood...

...Seed beads, heavy copper chain, clay beads

and a melange of other found beads.

This will debut at Blue Santa Beads & Boutique,

Media, PA on November 1st at my Trunk Show.

See you there...?

Wasser Glass Meets Copper & Clay E A R R I N G S

These waffle Wasser slabs told me exactly what they 

wanted to be as they dropped to my work table from

 their Emily Cohen Florida Ziploc...

Even the interesting shapes of the waffle Wasser have a

unique appeal when layered atop a neutral rectangle 

of plain Wasser glass complemented by a 

clay Spirit Hole disc...

The combination of lightweight Wasser glass shapes 

& paper thin ceramic Spirit Hole discs 

makes these statement earrings such an easy wear...

I'm loving the asymmetrical cuts of Wasser...

...almost as much as this "Put-a-Cork-in-It!" wine bottle 

earring display by Floridian jewelry artist,

Emily Cohen!

V A S E S

Sometimes it's nice to see how a piece of pottery

LOOKS as it's becoming a functional form...

 

The SW Vase above is constructed

with rough hand dug clay and has my signature 

hangie-downs to let you know when a curious cat

is investigation what's IN IT...

While the Fish Stenciled Vase has no such protection!

The Leaf Me Alone vase is much smaller 

and belted with leather from which both beads

 and a clay leaf hang. The opening

is lined with leaves which accent the floral blooms...

Both the Mikado (left) and Scrappie Vase are still

simple cylinders with pinch-strip collars; 

their form comes from what is there,

 their function from what is not there.

Revisiting My Clay Pots...

I took a workshop with a Vermont hand builder 

who made cylinders into amazing bottles, 

so I tried some as well

using my inlaid and transfer techniques...

September Share Necklaces

I am doing a September 8th Saturday Share at

Blue Santa Beads & Boutique where I will not only create

Clay to Wear with purchased components

 by attending shoppers

But will also have a nice showing of new completed work.

This reversible pendant necklace (above) is accented with

a found wood topper and Wasser glass hangies...

The two sides of this gas-fired Boomerang pendant is

also accented with a found wood topper and inlaid

flat round porcelain bead  hanging beneath.

These two Boomerang pendants were offered for sale

previously at Blue Santa Beads in Media, PA but they are

now Clay to Wear and ready to wear...

Wasser and Beach glass are the accents to these 

scroddled clay spirit hole discs which form this

 fun conversation piece of neck wear...

And last but not least, faux African trade rounds,

flat glass squares, seed beads and a hollow textured

clay focal tube bead make up this statement piece.