A bit about me and what I want to show you in this site. Now that I am retired from gainful employment I can indulge my two passions - pottery and traveling. I'd like to combine them by taking clay workshops along the way. I am planning a trip around the world for a year starting in 2016. Of course I can't go everywhere and see everything in only a year so I am (this time) leaving out whole continents - Africa and South America (parts of which I have visited several times in past trips). Check out the blog for my adventures as I travel starting in January 2016.
My pottery is the focus of this website . I have never gained a degree in ceramics or any form of art. I am a microbiologist/molecular biologist by training and have worked in that field for the past 40 some years. I have always been interested in arts and crafts - probably due to the fact that I grew up on a farm where most work was done by hand and where whatever was needed was made at home if at all possible.
Over the years I have taken classes in many art and craft mediums - painting (watercolors and oils), sculpture as well as textile crafts - clothing and quilting and finally pottery. Once I discovered pottery classes I knew I had found my medium. Clay work fulfilled both my artistic and scientific sides. Pottery making, especially underglaze painting on pots, made the creative side of me happy, whereas the scientific organizing half of my brain was intrigued by the science of glazes and glaze-making and testing.
I am a member of the London Potters Guild in London ON CANADA (as opposed to that other London) where I have a small private studio space. The London Potters Guild (www.londonpottersguild.org) has purchased and renovated an old brick building into an amazing space and resource for clay work. I am proud to have been involved in the renovation and creation of the London Clay Art Centre.
My pottery is the focus of this website . I have never gained a degree in ceramics or any form of art. I am a microbiologist/molecular biologist by training and have worked in that field for the past 40 some years. I have always been interested in arts and crafts - probably due to the fact that I grew up on a farm where most work was done by hand and where whatever was needed was made at home if at all possible.
Over the years I have taken classes in many art and craft mediums - painting (watercolors and oils), sculpture as well as textile crafts - clothing and quilting and finally pottery. Once I discovered pottery classes I knew I had found my medium. Clay work fulfilled both my artistic and scientific sides. Pottery making, especially underglaze painting on pots, made the creative side of me happy, whereas the scientific organizing half of my brain was intrigued by the science of glazes and glaze-making and testing.
I am a member of the London Potters Guild in London ON CANADA (as opposed to that other London) where I have a small private studio space. The London Potters Guild (www.londonpottersguild.org) has purchased and renovated an old brick building into an amazing space and resource for clay work. I am proud to have been involved in the renovation and creation of the London Clay Art Centre.