Tie-dyed Porcelain Cup
This work features celadon glaze and Kiangxi quinhua – Jingdezhen under-glaze blue and white – and 24 k Roman gold. These pieces utilize a runny celadon glaze gas reduction fired, and re-firing at low temperature for gold and enamel applications. Gold nuggets are stoneware clay fragments with gold applications.
Lotus Teacup
This intensity of color on this piece derives from premium Kiangxi Jingdezhen quinhua and 24k Roman gold. It is gas reduction fired to cone 10 celadon glaze and re-fired at low temperature for gold application.
Lotus Mixed Media Cup
This piece features under-glaze blue and white (quinhua), Chinese over-glaze enamels and 24k Roman gold. It was gas reduction fired to cone 10 and re-fired to low temperature in 3 firings for gold and enamels.
Quinhua Warrior
This work features under-glaze blue and white (Jingdezhen quinhua), 24k German gold and silver. The original arrowhead icon signifies bravery. Gas reduction fired and low firings electric kiln for 24k gold and silver.
Hope
My former student, Jamaal Eversley, a painter, actor and community arts coordinator, invited me to collaborate with him for an exhibit with several of his artist friends called Real F.R.I.E.N.D.S., at the Beacon Gallery, Boston, this past September and October 2020. I met Jamaal at Babson College, when I ran the ceramic program for students […]
Suzanne Pemsler-Puppet Divas
For the Clay Studio, Philadelphia, and their exhibit “100 Years 100 Women” 50 artists were invited to create 2 portrait plates each, to commemorate this 100th anniversary of the constitutional amendment giving women voting rights. Choosing 2 noteworthy performing artist friends, I created portrait plates of each: Viola da Gamba and Cello musician, Shirley Hunt; […]
My Della Rob-Baby
After an inspiring exhibition at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts on Della Robbia’s work, in 2016, I tried to figure out how I might work in this Majolica technique. Having just become a grandmother, as you can see in this image. I painted a brown underglaze into the details. After bisque firing, majolica glaze […]
My Family Odyssey: Voyage on the S.S. Finland to America
The image on the tile, made first then cast in plaster, helps to tell my Family Odyssey story. Notice the back of the boys jacket has the image of the bas-relief. When I create clay sculptures I often start with a tile, a bas-relief, to figure out my idea, my sketch. Then use it to […]
All Together Now
All three pieces were created after sketches I always create in my program guides at Boston Symphony Concerts. All were created in Denmark at the wonderful International Ceramic Research Center, Guldagergaard during my 2 residencies in 2011, and during my second residency in 2012, when I made the nesting pitchers with in-glaze, twice glaze fired […]
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