Photo by R.Clayton
McKee
2007 BROCHUREARTWORK EVOLUTION Initially, mugs and bowls were my favorite pots to create. Nowadays, I am enjoying handbuilding and sculpture more after being in Vince Pitelka's workshop when he came to Houston October 2006. It is a liberating luxury having a wheel, slab roller and other tools to make the creative clay process easier. But, you want to know something? After all these years, kilns aside, I've learned the least amount of the most simplest inexpensive tools can help you create the most satisfying work. It allows more immediacy and intimacy in self expression. Kilns are THE most important tool for the potter and that can never be understated. Kilns are what compliments and completes the potter's creativity. "A potter who is serious in this work should learn to fire their own kiln, any kiln..." as stated by Mel Jacobson, moderator of Clayart.org. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONSTEXAS POTTERS®
HOUSTON POTTERS GUILD ° Member and Webdesigner 2004-2007 EMPTY BOWLS Since its Houston debut in 2005, I have contributed scores of handmade bowls annually and volunteered in its efforts with all proceeds benefitting the Houston Food Bank. 2006 was my first year participating in Avenue CDC's fundraising auction at Winter Street Studios. I entered my Granite Man bust and Lava Platter in 2007, both being sold auction night. A great event! ABOUT ME My ethnic background is something of a cultural blend, my mother having been born in Maui, Hawaii of Hawaiian and Korean parents, and my father being of Scotch, English and Irish descent, having come from East Texas. Twice married, having been widowed once with no children of my own, I have two spectacular stepchildren, and now two step grandchildren as of this writing. Today I get to travel all over the world with my husband to see them; one family lives in Cork, Ireland and the other lives in Melbourne, Australia. |
I participated in the Houston Branch School art sale Spring 2007. Sitting beside my tables were plants the school's students had planted. The Master Gardener was educating us about the plants, which of course encouraged us to buy them. I came home with four different ones barely peeping from their pots. Last week I saw some Monarchs atop one of my newly acquired milkweed plant's blossoms. I watched in amazement as the butterflies homed into the front yard, over the house, fluttering their way to the backyard where this lone food source hid. HOW in the world did they find it? Today (8-8-07) I was greeted with company having breakfast. Their chrysalis will certainly be interesting and I'll post an image as soon as I see one. What's cool about these? The summer/fall ones live eight or nine months to migrate completing their species cycle. I've looked underneath all the leaves and eaves and have not found a chrysalis. Either there was not enough milkweed to nourish them through their molt, or I need to be a better detective. I'll keep looking... By the by, did you 'knowtice' that the larger the black stripe on the caterpillar, the older (first to hatch) it is? I suspect it's the first to likely survive.
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