| Free Range Pottery |
From the humblest of beginnings a pot is made. Pottery
requires no tools, men and women without any formal
skill have made functional and decorative forms for tens
of thousands of years, and the raw material is literally
available in the ground we walk on. As a potter, I relish
the opportunity to create work that melds function and
form in a relationship that pleases multiple senses. My
work is functional before all else, and knowing that a
piece will be used daily is the driving force behind my
creative process. Through regular use, a functional
piece is actively appreciated for its form and design. In
contrast, exclusively decorative artwork can only be
passively appreciated. Washing a handmade bowl after
eating out of it provides an intensely thorough and
intimate experience that is simply unavailable to the
viewer of a painting or photograph. Clay as a medium
is the most basic and archetypal that artists and
craftspeople can work with, and as such, the works
created from it appeal to a deep and central part of our
ability to appreciate both the form and function of a
made object.
requires no tools, men and women without any formal
skill have made functional and decorative forms for tens
of thousands of years, and the raw material is literally
available in the ground we walk on. As a potter, I relish
the opportunity to create work that melds function and
form in a relationship that pleases multiple senses. My
work is functional before all else, and knowing that a
piece will be used daily is the driving force behind my
creative process. Through regular use, a functional
piece is actively appreciated for its form and design. In
contrast, exclusively decorative artwork can only be
passively appreciated. Washing a handmade bowl after
eating out of it provides an intensely thorough and
intimate experience that is simply unavailable to the
viewer of a painting or photograph. Clay as a medium
is the most basic and archetypal that artists and
craftspeople can work with, and as such, the works
created from it appeal to a deep and central part of our
ability to appreciate both the form and function of a
made object.
