Pots

I started throwing...

back in the 90s when I was living in DC and looking for something creative to do. So I went to the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria and invested money I didn't really have in some creative inspiration. Soon I was hooked and never looked back. Then after a couple of years I moved overseas and although I took my wheel with me, it was alway a hassle to find clay and even more of a hassle to find someone who would fire the finished pots for me. So I tried, but I was pretty out of practice when I returned to the States.

After getting settled in New York I started looking for a studio, and soon found Chambers Pottery, run by Amanda with creativity and joy. We make great pots and have a great time doing it.

On this page I hope to show you some of the pots I've been working on, and talk about some of the processes I've been investigating as well. So relax and enjoy.

I don't have...

many pots with me from the Torpedo Factory days, but I do have a few from a raku firing that my teacher, Mark Hatfield, hosted at his house. This one is my favorite.

That was my one and only experience with raku, but I really loved it and want to try again, and I'm going to do that soon. But more on that later.

The studio...

at Chambers has electric kilns which we bisque to ^06 and glaze to ^5 or ^6 depending on the clay. We have some always available glazes, but the glazemasters are always experimenting so you never know what new thing you'll find.

The best thing about working in a studio is the exposure to so many cool things that other people are trying. At some point I'll try to post some of the best of these. But first, here are a few samples of basic electric fired pottery that I've made here:

Here's your basic bowl, glazed with a floating blue/vc5 combo glaze. I'm not too impressed with the photo but the bowl itself looks pretty nice.
(to be continued)