Ridge Bowls

Ever since my friend deemed a certain tone of my wood and soda fired cups, "twilight cups", I've been wanting to find interesting names for my pots. Names that suggest the details of nature that I so love and feel refreshed by and in turn, incorporate into my clay pots.

This impressed texture of these 'ridge bowls' I've done for a while and it's one of my favorites. I often think of it as the folds and ridges of a mountain range. The glaze pools in the deeper areas of the texture and breaks on the ridges, just like the sunlight casting its shadows into the deep folds of the mountain ridges, while lighting up the spine of the ridge. I saw this last night on a nice adventure over on Unaka Mountain, along the Appalachian Trail near Erwin, TN. It's hard to capture the essence of those mountain folds in a picture rather than seeing them in person, but maybe these below will show you what I see in my bowl texture:



This batch of bowls turned out really nice, the shino glaze on the interior is more reduced than in some previous firings. I love the warm golden, peachy tones...


Do you sense a theme going on here in my mind with the changing of the seasons? I keep talking about things using the terms warm, cozy, toasty, golden, coral, and then when you get me talking about food I'm referring to spices and hot soup! Ah, the cozy things of life.

Oh and one last picture to get you through your day:

this was last night's coral sun setting over Beauty Spot Mountain

Have a nice weekend!