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

A loaf of bread made of earthenware clay, packaged in plastic and complete with use by date sticker.  This loaf of bread weighs 13 pounds.  

Loaf of Bread 

Purple daisies emerge from a dome shaped ceramic vase with a face painted on the surface from the nose up using reds, oranges, yellows, blues, and purples in the skin tones, with green eyes, surrounded by pink hair with short bangs over the forehead.

Pink Hair Vase

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

Small Grotto

A teapot styled in a metallic and leather steampunk facade with straps, whirly-gigs, chains, ropes and gears.

Steampunk Teapot

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

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

Child's Hand

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

Bowl

This is a hand thrown platter with a hand drawn image of a cow head on it with a gold halo around it.The Halo is done in luster so it is very shiny and metallic in contrast to the black and white image of the cow and border. Around the border of the platter are clover plants. The cow is a holstein cow, black and white spotted and the style of drawing is a kind of cross hatched etching sort of look. 

Saints of the Barnyard: They Give Us Their Milk

A ceramic teapot with a straight spout. The body of the pot is is shaped like an alien space ship with chattering (a form of carving) along the outer edge of the pot. There is a simple bamboo handle attached at the top, for ease of use. The glaze on the teapot is a deep tan with teal and green splotches all over.

Short and Stout

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

The piece is a thrown and altered ceramic vase. There's a wide thin horizontal lip similar to a hat rim. Below the rim is a broad shoulder that narrows down to the base and foot of the vase. On the front body there is an asymmetrical cross where the vase was hit which bi-secs the body and includes and folds down the rim in the front. This adds some unique interest points. 

Crossed

A ceramic sculpture of a hairless peach-skinned woman captured in an angry outburst, wearing purple lipstick and red rouge highlighting the beauty mark on her left cheek.

Clarissa

A hand pieced clay bowl in a round shape with the Chino glaze to resemble a flower.

Petal bowl

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

The Idea

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

Dark, gestural hand thrown bottle that was fired with wood in an anagama style kiln. This bottle is naturally glazed with melted wood ash. 

Wood Fired Bottle

The dwarfed Statue of Liberty faces several tall bollards of the southern border wall construction

Untitled

This expressionist clay chalice abstract to ancient chalice form. It's physical base is handbuilt and angular, holding a wheel thrown and altered vessel the size of a wine glass. The white stoneware shows through in places that are not covered with a melted ash glaze over a second glaze that ranges from matt orange to glossy blue. It could be as satisfying in your hand as it is for your eyes.

Chalice

A sgraffito style white clay bow with a black inner surface. Vertical dragonflies adorn the outside of the bowl with colorful wings in blue and green and purple and red.

Dragonfly Bowl

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

Anemone

A ceramic painting with abstract shapes that are white, pink, and orange on a pink panel. An orange textured shaped is underneath two white shapes and wraps around the left side of the painting. 

Invaders

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 Ceramic Box with an etched drawing of Dolly Parton. The top has the name "Dolly" etched in cursive. The other 3 sides feature a guitar, rainbows and flowers

Dolly Box

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

Coffee Pot

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

Wheel-thrown pottery bowl with black, gray and while clay marbled together. Facets are cut in the top two-thirds of the bowl.

Marbled Bowl

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.

Blue Jar, 2016

Kristal Leebrick