work in progress

I thought I would give you a glimps into what I have been up to. These images are from the deck in my back yard. This is a commission piece I started two years ago- which seems like a very long time! So two summers ago I had a tremendous amount of fun making the original piece- which you can see below next to the space where it is to be installed. 
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​Then I hit a brick wall because I needed to figure out some glazes that would satisfy both me and my clients.

 They were very accepting and wonderful- but I kept not being satisfied. Many rounds of tests over the last year an a half resulted in a few glazes that I really like and a lot of test pieces and test tiles. 

Last summer I was able to install the first part of the commission- a wall fountain and two medallions that you can see below. They look great! In the process of working out the glazes and processes, I made a number of other pieces which I was able to show at Paradise City Arts Festival last spring along with the fountain.

Finally this spring I finished glaze firing the original pieces- some of which you can see close ups of below. 

When I laid it all out in the original configuration I found it boring. Totally uninspiring. 

So I started to play- rearrange- add some of the test pieces- rethink the configuration. This is again a very fun process- it is like reinventing and giving it new life. 

Where it stands now is that this is a draft version. It is very different than the original- so I will be talking with the clients to make sure that they like it, or if they have thoughts about. 

I am going to give myself some time to look at it, and maybe do a second draft, before I get the backer board and start to set the pieces into a permanent configuration.