Tuliptiles

Here are some contemporary Dutch designs. They can be found at royal goedewaagen. I like the tulip vases made from tiles. Two things most people associate with traditional dutch ceramics thrown

Falling apart at the seems.

Well I have a blank pillow case and embroidery thread. What to do?
 I made a porcelain soda fired vase that someone embroidered for me and I decided to make an alteration to it. I felt it needed a clearly defined separation between the thread and clay. I essentially started framing the space with a darker thread. You may have noticed that frames play an important

Art and Ceramics

Just for fun.

Pieter Brueghel the Elder

Common ground

I'm having some trouble organizing my thoughts for the next few blogs. I have been jumping around and looking at different work, trying to organize my thoughts into a cohesive pattern. I have been jumping around between the tin glazed work in the Netherlands and the underglaze work form Iznik, Turkey. While trying to work out how I can tie it all together with Persian tin glaze wares that started it all. That doesn't even include Italy and Spain and the significant produced by those two countries. Any way I will work it out and write the blog posts soon. I was distracted by this image while looking at some of the collection of Islamic ceramics on the Louvre website. I will explain later how this relates to some of my tiles and the idea I neglected to fully develop.

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres after Donatello
source

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
source

Ryan Greenheck

Mug
porcelain with multiple glazes

Jar
porcelain with multiple glazes

I wanted to share these images with you. They are from the Schaller Gallery I think they are great colours and interesting forms. The use of sprigs and the running colours in the glazes add a great level of depth and interest. See more of Ryan Greenheck's here.

Indiginous ceramics from Canada

Me at the ROM!

Ontario Iroquoian height: 25.8 cm 900 - 1300 AD

Ontario Iroquoian
height: 25.8 cm 900 - 1300 AD

I took a trip to the Royal Ontario Museum in June to look at the ceramics collection. If you have a

Before we had clay.

I went out for a walk Sunday afternoon to take some photographs and not think about tiles. It has been