Meditation bowls are how I keep centered, focused and how I achieve inner peace and tranquility...
They will be missed...
Here is the on-line Gallery featuring, "Art of the Cup 2015". If you would like to see some wonderful cups and teapots, I hope you will click on the link below.
(http://ogdenmuseum.org/photoGallery/index.html?gallery=Art_of_the_Cup_2015)
These 2 pieces started as smallish pinched meditation bowls and ended up being works in progress all summer long! They remained in zip-lock bags while I was away a week at a time to teach workshops in Cullowhee and at Arrowmont. At last they are ready to start the drying process, slowly....
Don't ask me what happened? I am still reflecting on this adventure into the past....
Have I mentioned recently how much I love returning to the quiet of my studio?.... It is where I renew my energy and my creativity. Looking out at my garden filled with flowers and overgrown tomato vines, the changing light of summer prepares to turn into the amber light of fall. It always makes me sigh, the signal that it is time to slow down and leave the "rush" of the real world outside my door. I know the time has come at long last that I can slip into the timelessness of living in the moment and the enjoyment of "now"... no numbers, no words, no emailing, no texting, and no interruptions if I am lucky!...
Way to go everyone!!!!!!! Thank you for making the workshop such a special experience! I have missed you all since we left Arrowmont and think about our time together often. I do hope our paths will cross again soon....Keep in touch, send me images and enjoy your journey in clay and in life....Alice
Imagine getting all this done on our last day before clean up!!!!! What a fantastic class this was....
Tomorrow, a look at our studio, dressed up and ready for the Arrowmont Studio Tour that was held on Thursday night....and what a Grande Finale it was!!!!!!
Fun, fun, fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Notice everything is wrapped in plastic! In the end, the molds are cleaned up, ware boards and buckets are unwrapped. Left over plaster, plaster covered plastic, clay from molds is thrown in the center of the plastic we worked on. All the mess is bundled up and thrown away! Very little muss and certainly no fuss!
These simple molds require less plaster and are lighter....
Love this picture Cat!
Love those pine needles!
All the while, we are loading and unloading 6 kiln loads of work, with gorgeous results I might add!
Pinched Meditation Bowl in the Arrowmont Instructor's Show
Display of pinched, dowel and hard form work...
Transitioning from simple to complex, all the time having a "conversation with the clay and with our intuition...
Creating form using hard forms...
Lovely examples of the projects we did...
Beautiful first load!
Did I mention what a truly fantastic class at Arrowmont this was!!!!!!!!!!