Ceramic Garden Sculptures and Flowers

Yellow and red poppies together in the garden.

         

Yard bird sculpture on a tall metal rod perch with a poppy.

 Painted turtle sculpture above the ground mounted on a short metal rod.

                     
                       Ceramic frog sculpture in the garden.

Poppies for Loyalist College

Four of eight poppies in their display stand for Loyalist College's 50th anniversary convocation in Belleville.
Their bottoms are glazed red because they will be on a raised stage and seen for below by the audience.

Making " Tower of London Style" Poppies

Start with cut offs from yesterday's poppies.

Kneed cut-offs into new clay.

Kneeding

Recycled clay, ready to use.

Roll the clay into a slab on the canvas work table.

Smooth and compress the clay with a metal rib.

Cut out two poppy halves from the slab.

Remove the extra clay and save for more poppies.

Score and slip.

Join the tops and bottoms.

Shape the flat clay into poppies.

Dry the poppies slowly for a few days.

Poppies after a 10 hour bisque firing, waiting to be glazed.

Glazed poppies waiting at the kiln for firing.

Our cats sitting around the hot kiln during the 12 hour glaze firing.

Open the kiln after a 24 hour cool down.

Finished poppies on their metal stems

Poppies around Walter Allward 's plaster models from the Vimy Ridge Memorial.
They are at the Military Communications and Electronics Museum in Kingston, Ontario.

Poppies in the garden at Eastminster United Church in Belleville, Ontario.
They are part of a Remembrance Day ceremony sanctioned by the Royal Canadian Legion.
10% of each poppy sold goes to the Belleville Poppy Fund.

Winter Bowls

These bowls were thrown on the potter's wheel from clay stained with mason stain. The colours swirl together as the clay spins.

Newest Poppies for Spring 2017

This latest poppy has a ceramic centre that is designed to look like the seed pod.