by Bristlecone Pottery | Oct 5, 2020 | Hunter-Wolff Gallery, Saggar-Fired
Description A Simple Twist of Fate (God’s divine plan) occurred when my husband, Bob, hung out with me in the studio for a while as I started this piece. The walls were only a couple inches high when he suddenly asked, “Can you make the edges twist as you build the...
by Bristlecone Pottery | Oct 5, 2020 | Hunter-Wolff Gallery, Saggar-Fired
Description Ojo Verde is kind of autobiographical. My eyes, normally grey-blue, turn green when I wear dark green. Firing my kiln has become a metaphor for life. No matter how carefully I plan the form and try to organize the color elements, somehow the firing...
by Bristlecone Pottery | Oct 5, 2020 | Hunter-Wolff Gallery, Saggar-Fired
Description It wasn’t an apple, you know. It may have been a pomegranate, a beautiful Mediterranean fruit with an alluring scent and a bitter, seedy pulp. Looks are deceiving! The shape of this small piece reminds me of a pomegranate, hence the name. Dimensions...
by Bristlecone Pottery | Mar 24, 2020 | Hunter-Wolff Gallery, Saggar-Fired
Description Luna’s Bowl is named for the mare who belongs to a neighbor here in Buena Vista. The 3 circular squiggly swirls were created by Luna’s tail hair, positioned over the ferric chloride, sugar crystals and bits of copper wire that created the imagery, during...
by Bristlecone Pottery | Mar 24, 2020 | Hunter-Wolff Gallery, Saggar-Fired
Description Sea Foam + Lava, Shaken, Not Stirred I’m working on developing a broader color pallet – this one includes verde copper accents that brought to mind the sea foam on the coast of the Big Island in Hawaii, where Kilauea poured her lava into the sea. ...
by Bristlecone Pottery | Jan 10, 2020 | Hunter-Wolff Gallery, Saggar-Fired
Description A small vessel, a jar of clay, a fragile thing, but the treasure is there within it. Paul is telling the Corinthians in his second letter to them that they, themselves, are the fragile jars of clay into which God has breathed His spirit, and each of them...
