Fine Mess Pottery

 I feel like everybody has a lot less in the tank these days, with the pandemic stress piled on top of all the usual stressors, and the poli...

The kiln project is not very photogenic at this stage! But it is coming along. The old kiln is gone - or rather it is in stacks of (mostly r...

 ...or so a wise friend once told me! By that metric I am done the deconstruction of the kiln.  I took down the stack, down the the level of...

  Yesterday, not so much! It was a deluge of rain among the last shreds of Hurricane Elsa. I drove to Belfast, to deliver pots to Mainely Po...

  Are you familiar with the Law of Bad Hair? That refers to that phenomenon that happens when, after weeks of hating your hairstyle & wa...

  The last firing of the old kiln is loaded. I'm feeling, as the cool kids used to say, some kind of way.  I built this, with my own han...

Tomorrow!" cried Toad. " I will do it all tomorrow !" It me. I'm Toad. 

The first raku of the 2021 season was a great success! It was a promising beginning. I made some minor adjustments to the kiln, trying to ge...

 The painters finished our house this week - I have been wanting to get this done for 10 years! 15, really, but 10 years ago I did as much a...

I & the other members of the professional organization I belong to, the Central Maine Clay Artists , will be part of a group show at Mon...

 Every year in May, when the bleeding hearts bloom, I set myself the challenge of replicating them in slip. They seem like naturals, with th...

 As I have mentioned here before, the wildlife imagery I use is never of the "iconic" variety. I'm not opposed to moose & ...