Here are some shots of my work featured in the Open Studio over 3 days late November, 1st December. This was a huge undertaking for me, but I had some wonderful help from husband Derek and friends, particularly Janet who helped me clean up one extremely hot afternoon.
Many people came and most of them bought something. There were many requests for classes so I have two maybe three more students.
I think I will do this again, but just once a year. If my sales area could be separate from my studio area I could do it more often. It was certainly well received and the support I had from the Shepparton News and The Community Fund in the Goulburn Valley was wonderful.
After spending many weeks concentrating on thrown bowls and bottles, I am ready to work on some whimsical sculptural forms - just cos I want to.
Soon

The last few weeks have been hectic. I have been producing work for my open studio here in Mooroopna. The work recently produced has all been thrown with porcelain and fine stoneware.  I really got into the bottle forms, enjoying the challenge of making bulbous bodies and fine narrow necks.
The glazes are mostly in the green spectrum, and I am striving to create the exact temperature and atmosphere to encourage the soft absorption of one glaze into the other with feathery soft edges.
This is the first time I have had an open studio here. Over the past few years I have put my work into galleries for sale and not sold directly to the public apart from the occasional piece. This year I am opening the studio to allow more direct exchange between myself and the buyer. I am donating 20% of sales to a local charity Goulburn Valley Community Fund which distributes funds to those in need here.
This is an adventure. One added plus is that I have been forced to clean up my studio/shed - I mean really clean it up, cobwebs and all. Although I don't enjoy this process, the outcome will be better.
So hope to see some of you here on Friday 29th, Saturday 30th November or Sunday 1st December from 9 till 5, and I am demonstrating throwing between 10 and 10.30.

bisque firing for my open studio on Friday 29th, Saturday 30th November and Sunday 1st December

900cm tall, slab built

Blue Green Angel

Blue Green Angel is currently in the Clunes National Ceramic Award in  Clunes, near Ballarat, Central Victoria. There are fine examples of ceramic Art in this beautiful exhibition which concludes this Sunday, 13th October.

Ennui, Figurative sculpture (detail)

About the relationship between a man and a woman. It stands 325cm tall and 270cm across.

Ennui

After a lovely day out visiting Red Pepper Gallery in Daylesford , delivering stock and enjoying a beautiful lunch, I was able to peek at the results of last nights firing which finished at two am.
I was worried about this firing, the cones had not fallen properly but the colour (white hot) was right. I made a decision to turn off the gas and hoped!
It looks fine. All three glazes look as they should and the order will be fulfilled. I have fired three times this week, one raku, one mid fire and one high fire. Far too stressful for an old muddy like me!

Eagle teapot
thrown and hand built, carved and modeled, dry copper glaze, mid fired
exhibited in Melbourne teapot show

Raku Fired Bird

Hand pinched form and base raku fired.

A selection of surface treatments and decorations.

These are available at Red Pepper Gallery, Daylesford Victoria.

Teapot
Thrown fine stoneware, carved, sprigged, copper glaze
Winner of the functional award at the Melbourne teapot show at the Studio at Flinders Gallery 2013

Wavelength
thrown porcelain graduating forms
inspired by the imagined visualization of sound waves
Exhibited at Clunes National Ceramic Award 2011

Have you any wool
Exhibited at Shepparton Art museum Dec 2012
Mid-fired base and raku fired sheep.