On the Move...

I have decided to resurrect my blog after a long break.   So I guess the best way is to give a little update on what I have been doing.   Well, where to begin.  I closed down my little studio space in Fredericksburg, VA in November of last year to move to Montana.   Yes you read it right.   My husband and I decided to make a bit of a change and head out west to assist his brother with his business.  So after a bit of packing up, consolidating, packing up some more ... the following posts will chronicle what I have been up to over the last few months.   I will display what has developed in my pottery world along the way and what is in store for the future. My goal is to be a better blogger and be more consistent.

So where did I leave off, aah yes, my studio.  I had a lot to clean up at Libertytown, before I left so I tried to use up what clay I had and finish up my pieces.  I was pretty busy in the fall/winter of 2011.

Trying my hand at some slip trailing.  I took a workshop with the worlds best slipware potters, Hannah McAndrew from Scotland and Doug Fitch from Devon, England last year.  Check out their work ... Incredible!!

Once everything was thrown, trimmed, decorated and fired.  I was ready to clean and pack up the studio.  Whew ... a lot of work, glad I had three strong boys and a willing husband to do a lot of the work!  I was a good director!

It was hard leaving such a wonderful place.  Libertytown is a great workshop full of wonderful artists of all mediums, spinners and weavers, painters, potters, woodworkers, iron workers, jewelry designers, etc, etc.  Such a great collaboration of wonderful people.  It was a beautiful place to work on my pieces, learn from other artists, and relax and have fun.  If you are ever in Fredericksburg, Virginia I suggest you go downtown and visit Libertytown Arts Workshop.  They offer classes, and have a wonderful shop in the front where they sell the beautiful pieces the artists make.  This place was put together by Dan Finnegan, a renowned potter who studied in England with some of the world's greatest potters.  Fredericksburg is so fortunate to have one of the world's best right in their own back yard!   And I had the honor and blessing to learn from him and be a part of his wonderful studios.  He has a great blog, the best really, you should click on his name and read it, just fascinating stuff!