A porcelain object that shaped like half of a torso of a bird. The surface of the object is covered with sculpted feathers and fingers. 

Shelter

BIANCA METAL RAT/Year of the Metal Rat 1/25/20

A medium salad bowl made from clay and glazed half black, half yellow with an irregular bright green section through the middle.

Bowl

Blue textured wall piece ornate w flowers and presenting centrally locates blossom cup

Small Grotto

A variety of hand-thrown pottery, measuring approximately 3/8" to 1" in diameter.  They are mounted on a piece of natural wood.

Miniature Hand-thrown Pottery

A clay giraffe mask with brown glaze and bronze dry brush.

Spirit Mask Number One (Giraffe)

A creamy porcelain bowl with a brown cat face. The cat face has blue eyes and a pink nose. Brown pointed ears extend above the rim of the bowl. In the back, the rim has been cut with a spiral for yarn to create a tail. The bowl sits above the table on four legs brown legs with cat paws. 

Siamese Kitten Yarn Bowl

A wheel thrown and altered lidded coffee pot with deep orange and grey blushing. 

Coffee Pot

Irregularly shaped stoneware vase with two spiral handles.  Textured, brightly colored surface evoking undersea, sea, sky and sun.

WavyVase

A photograph of an orange, black, and white ceramic facsimile of a traffic cone sitting in the middle of a city street at night.

Emergency Regulations

A dimensional Ceramic flower inspired by ocean plants with individually handcut petals arranged to create movement within the piece.

Anemone

Ceramic figure, pensively gazing upward, hands on his round belly, outfitted in his speckled blue jacket, red shirt, and yellow/green striped pants.

Waiting for Better Days

11-31/32" Jug

Continuous Maze Pattern: This object is a slipcast ceramic egg with a wax-resist design written in beeswax using a traditional Kistka tool for making Pysanky eggs. The patterns employed are maze, labyrinth and weaving designs meant to be contemplated as visual metaphors for the complexity we see before us now and finding a path to the other side.

Maze Pysanky Egg

A ceramic vase with a stubby body and fat neck, the lower half is a dark grey glassy clay body and the top has a natural brown ash glaze with a drip down the center.

Burnt Mud

A photo of three vases, with the third vase on the right side laying down at an angle to show the glaze inside. Each vase is an earthy shade of red with highlights and shadows from the kiln. The rim of each vase has a golden-yellow colored glaze with some drips coming partially down vase.

Three Vases

A diorama painting/sculpture of dark ceramic islands rising from the ocean with partial atoll of nature findings amidst turquoise water, looming in the corner is a pile of floating plastic.

Contextual Glimpse

Ceramic stoneware, wood fired sculpture. The piece resembles a bunny sitting in a relaxed and optimistic position. The back legs stretching out in front of the front, and ears are up high with alert and awareness.

Hitch

A saturated red balaclava mask sits on a blank white backdrop. The mask is stretched giving the form a large open mouth and eyes.  

Red 2

Dinner Plate

A young boy plays Peak-a-boo on outdoor playground equipment.

Peak a Boo with Jack

The sculpture is a candle holder that can't hold a candle 

The Idea

Swirled and detailed patterns of peach and gray tones create images that encourage imaginative interpretaion such as images of a cloud burst. These patterns reflect the random interactions of the minerals, smoke, and heat which occur in the  pit firing process. 

Pit Fired Bottle #12 Atmoshperic Wonder

Free standing terra cotta clay figure, covered with leaves, her head tilted to listen with love to the song of the red bird perched on her shoulder

Into the Garden: compassion

Wheel thrown and altered set of nested buckets. Green glaze with salmon & orange tones from the soda ash atmosphere the vessels were fired in. 

Sisakkain

This is a rounded blue jar made out of high-fire stoneware. It has 10 orange squares on one side stacked vertically in three rows: four in one row, three in the next and two in the next row. The jar has a lid with a thin nob to use as a handle to lift the lid off the jar. 

Blue Jar

Two porcelain hand thrown bowls dialogue. Hand scribed glazed lines define shape, rhythm and story.

Scribed Storied Bowls

Child's Hand

A blue/green oriental style dragon coils around a deep blue ball shaped jar.  Each scale, talon and detail carefully sculpted and applied one at a time. The frill around the face, the horns and teeth are covered in 22k gold. It holds in it's mouth another round ball covered in iridescent glaze.  This "pearl" mimics the ball the dragon encircles. The blue ball jar is also highlighted by some iridescence.  The jar comes open dividing the dragon just before the front legs.

Dragon Jar

A small ceramic jar, cylindrical in shape that has a flat top and a smooth transition into four stout legs. In the center of the jar, a glossy black hemisphere caps the opening to the jar. The flat top of the jar has a organic, scored texture and is glazed in a matte gold lustre. The side and feet of the jar are glazed in a matte, mottled green black that sharply contrasts the gold on its top, and the glossy black on its lid.

Earthen Jar

Ceramic, domed frame with circular window revealing a realistic, sculpted head with decorated face within. 

Shelter, 2014

Qian Liu