Fine Mess Pottery

The flowers of mid-June make the best bouquets! The enormous raspberry heads of peony, the delicate deep purple shapes of Siberian Iris, t...

It's raspberry season once again, and my unmowable slope is earning its keep. For a week or so in July, I get a full colander every da...

  Pottery in the wild. 

I think of pottery as artwork that is not finished until it is in use, so once in a while I like to post image of my work, truly finis...

You've probably heard me say that pottery is artwork that is only really finished when it's in use. I love when people send me pictu...

I got this recipe from Hope Rovelto, a sculptor and then-kitchen manager at the Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts. I did a work-week resid...

One could argue that functional pottery is art which is only completed when in use. Though I usually post more formal shots of ware - g...