Grass Mugs and Bowls

These mugs and bowls are thrown thickly on the wheel and carved back to create their textural "grass"surface.

 Now on display at the Quinte Arts Council Gallery.

Pho Bowls 

These bowls were made to order as a wedding present. Four coloured clay bodies were stacked together and thrown on the wheel.

Two slots were cut in their rims to be chop stick rests.

Poppy Pods and Poppies

New Pottery at the QAC this spring

Some new mugs and bowls at the Quinte Arts Council Gallery on Bridge Street in Belleville, Ontario

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.