Playing with Clay

Oct 12

Harder than it looks, messy and so much fun…

Thanks for the photo Brenna ~ yup these are my hands, and sometimes there’s splatters all up the wall and cursing when it crumbles and falls…

Opening up, allowing, playing, becoming, to really be the artist in me.

We’re so lucky to have a wonderful teacher and art centre in our wee village at the end of the road, thank you Shivaun, Nancy, Tidal Art Centre and all the fellow creative students as we inspire each other learning together as we grow… so fun, so rewarding, so grateful !

In school I had to chose between biology and art… it seemed at the time that biology might be more useful, so art got put on hold for way too many years…

Wondering the earth with camera in hand since my 10th birthday there’s a few thousand images to sort and some to share, thinking about it is overwhelming, at times inspired by the joys of memories, and at others seems like a massive chore. It’ll happen in time.

I’ve dabbled in words and a few other mediums…

Yet playing with clay is a meditation, a focus, a fun recent discovery, so messy and immediate, there nothing else in that moment of hands and clay working together… we started in level 1 with basic cylinders and bowls on the wheel, then level 2 making six “identical” pieces… now open studio exploring whatever we want.

Tidal Art Centre in Lund offers clay classes, on the wheel, so two consecutive level one classes and one time through level two ~ now its time to let loose, to really play…

We also had a Raku workshop building, firing, painting and then super-heating our creations to drop into a sealed bin of paper that created whole new wild patterns and textures.

I can see a lifetime obsession emerging.

Here’s a few pieces from this first year journey playing with clay…

Thanks fellow creators for the ideas and inspirations along the way.