Ceremonial Vessels
My little studio ( in the woods beside our home in Woodville) didn't really have the equipment to do the kind of ceramics I had learned about in college, high fired glazes on functional style pots, so I decided to go in a different direction and study very primitive forms and designs and produce pottery that was created using the most primitive methods I could.
Looking back at the Jomon period of Japanese potters, 8 thousand years ago, I found a unique style of forming and finishing that appealed to me. Forms that were so non-functional that they couldn't possibly be used for anything but ceremonial purposes. I got into burnishing and smokefiring these forms after seeing Jane Perryman's first book on smokefiring and after taking a pottery workshop in Taos New Mexico one Summer. I call them ceremonial vessels, for what ever personal ceremonies you might have or want to make-up.
Looking back at the Jomon period of Japanese potters, 8 thousand years ago, I found a unique style of forming and finishing that appealed to me. Forms that were so non-functional that they couldn't possibly be used for anything but ceremonial purposes. I got into burnishing and smokefiring these forms after seeing Jane Perryman's first book on smokefiring and after taking a pottery workshop in Taos New Mexico one Summer. I call them ceremonial vessels, for what ever personal ceremonies you might have or want to make-up.