Lisa York Arts Pitcher
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Exhibit at the Ohio Craft MuseumEnjoy Holiday Shopping |
My favorite use of a Colander is a fruit bowl. I love how you get to see the fruit from the sides and from the top. I guess this really is a glorified berry bowl...but it's a lot bigger. I especially enjoy the blue to brown earth tomes of the glazing on this piece. And the contrast of the bluer outside to the warmer colors on the inside. I love how wood firing gives such varied colors! |
Want a more prolific flower garden?
Step 1: | Collect deadheaded flower and let them continue to dry. |
Step 2: | Remove seeds from flower head by rubbing seeds with your thumb until they fall off. |
Note: | If seeds do not come off easily then you can either take more time to let them dry, or fight with the flower and slowly pinch and pluck them off. |
Step 3: | Store seeds in a dry location until you are ready to replant them in the spring. |
...and how I let go of my desire for everything to match.
I grew up with all of my mom's dinnerware matching, and all of it very light weight correlle glass plates. Naturally, I just assumed everyone's dinnerware including my own should match.
It took me years to get over this desire to have everything match. I mean most people can handle an ecclectic cup collection, but a varied plate collection...that can be a stretch; including me back in the day. Honestly, it took my art professor questioning my desire to have matching plates at a group dinner she was hosting at her house. She told me to look at the Mary Bowron plate I was eating off of. That plate was an art piece unto itself, and I had the opportunity to fill my whole kitchen with art work, and stories of endeared artists.
Well my art professors story of the preciousness of an artist plate stuck with me. I have become a pottery collector. Surprise surprise... a lot of my plates are even Mary Bowron's plates. I love hosting meals at my home, and seeing peoples reactions to choosing an art piece to eat off of. Usually, the reactions are joyful, and sometimes a race to grab their favorite pottery. For some of my friends, it's a learning curve to appreciate that pots are typically heavier than correlle glass...but slowly I bringing one friend at a time over to the dark side of loving handmade pottery.
In my new Milwaukee house/studio I have had a big dream come true of creating a plate wall. It brings me so much joy to have my collection of plates becoming a wall of "painting" that get used and rearranged.
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Even if your a small mug kind of person, it's helpful to have a larger mug for travel. No returning to your french press or coffee pot for a refill when your on the move. I especially like the mix of yellow and grays of this ashy mug. And look at the contrast of designs from one side of this mug to the other. Lots of surface detail to get lost in! |
About Chris & Theresa:
"We are both art enthusiasts. Theresa is a student of ceramic arts."
What Kind of art work do you Collect?
"pottery, statues, paintings, handmade jewelry"
Why do you buy handmade pottery?
Theresa – “There are many reasons why. It’s one of a kind, handmade art that typically is also functional. I enjoy supporting the tradition of the arts. I like to see and feel the potter’s hands in a piece.”
Chris – “I appreciate the procedure and dedication of years of disciplined practice to result in any piece I hold presently.”
How did you acquire a Lisa York piece of pottery?
"2019 20 Dirty Hands Tour, Joe Pinder’s shop, Pinder Pottery, Inc., Galena, Illinois."
What’s your favorite part about the Lisa York piece of pottery you own?
Chris – “I really love geometry and bright colors. Lisa’s red mug had such a striking color result, along with the way the mug was thrown to create the circular shape, but then the external walls were shaped into a tangent square surrounding the circular inner wall. It reminded me of certain famous children’s picture books many of us read when we were kids. Almost like an object in those books that was brought to three-dimensional life from the pages.”
Theresa – “I like that both pieces were wheel-thrown and then altered. Both are square, and in the case of the garlic jar, it also has a round lid. This makes the pieces unique, and I see the artist’s hands in the work.”
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These onion jars have stayed one of my favorite forms to make! If you have been watching my instagram feed over the last couple years...you know that I have been having a lot of fun with cutouts in my pottery. I mean who doesn't want a gorgeous solution on how to store onions on the kitchen counter. |
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