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

This vessel is faceted, meaning that clay has been sliced and torn away from the thrown form. What started as a round form is now jagged and angular. The cup utilizes a shino glaze that has a retinue of warm browns, oranges, and whites. The subtle streaks of blacks and greens are visible from the sides come from a wood ash solution.

Shino Rock Cup

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

Close up face of a snow leopard. They blue eyes and orange nose are prominent features. The glaze has crackled away creating an abstract of the black and white spotted fur.


Snow Leopard

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

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

Free To Be Me

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 sculpture of a turkey dinner on a 1.25 inch ceramic plate. The turkey slices, mashed potatoes and gravy, cranberries, stuffing, and green beans are sculpted with a combination of polymer clay, liquid clay, and resin. Additional shading was added with soft pastels and watered down acrylics. 

Gluttony

A sculpture with a cement base having a zig zag foot.  It is holding up three arched shaped ceramic forms that are off white, white, and blue.  

Three Pillars

Ceramic ink well type shape, small holes pierce through the top half. Long elegant iron-like scrolls extend up on the left side. Finished with a white washed type terra sigillata. 

Bud Vase

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

Steampunk Teapot

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

The Idea

A soft alpaca made of red clay standing on 4 long triangular legs and a long triangular neck. the fur texture is made of swirls that have spikes coming out. the animal looks stoic and is embellished with blue, black and green glaze. it looks very enticing to touch. 

Social Distance 

A pink baby head with elephant pacifier sits on top of a toy-like and wheeled base.  An extra large pacifier becomes the handle for the pull-string.

Margot's Big Boo-Boo Ride

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

This wall sculpture portrays two black beetles rolling a distinctly orange, prominent politician's head instead of a ball of dung.  

Nope

Child's Hand

A silky red rose made of polymer clay and coated with a shimmering sheer gloss.

A Rose for My Mom

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

Untitled

Ceramic piece made from slabs of clay, with lots of negative space. Glazed with yellows, orange, green, and black.

Flopsis

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 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

Set of three nesting clay bowls; the largest colored in sections of black, gray and white; the medium one colored primarily white with spots of brown; the smallest colored primarily gray with a small section of black

Pottery Trio

A wood fired ceramic jar covered in googly eyes.

Googly Eye Jar

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

Scribed Storied Bowls

A sculpture of a Black womans face. The texture is smooth from the acrylic paint. The back of the sculpture is flat. 

Face

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

Spirit Mask Number One (Giraffe)

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 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

A non-objective ceramic form rendering the artists perception of a human relation. Two glossy green arches opposing each other in direction and size sit on top of a matte pink bumpy base. The color and form play at duality.

Wood Fired Bottle, 2018

James Smead