Fine Mess Pottery

" To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts ." - Henry David Thoreau This - this right here - is the main r...

It was an unusually fast firing today - body reduction by 9:30 am, everybody down by 4 pm. This might be because I did a very thorough clear...

A slump is like a soft bed: easy to get into, hard to get out of. Unlike a soft bed, a big push never seems to break me free of a slump. Som...

I almost always find that the more time I spend with a piece the better I like it. Logic dictates that there is some upper limit to this ef...

Saturday, June 25th 1 - 5, Raku Workshop at Portland Pottery. We'll be doing the American version, in which we place the glowing hot ...

I played with the commercial stencils for a while, as I mentioned last post, and I like them, but to me they look conspicuously commercial. ...

You know who I love? Karen Dicenso! Karen is the voice on the phone (one of them) when you call Portland Pottery. (Like, say, when you call ...

I can never get my act together enough to apply to the shows I'd like to be represented in. I always seem to miss the window between oh-...

Woven clay baskets present some challenges. Because there's a lot of air space, they obviously don't hold up well without support, a...

This photo recently appeared in my Facebook feed. It's my graduate school cohort, in 1992 (I think?), at the Wagner Complex, which was...

I'm a big list maker. Without them I sort of flail around, starting things and then getting distracted. I keep my lists on paper - going...

In keeping with my goal to add a new account every shopping season, Fine Mess Pottery will now have work at Stable on Front , a fine craf...