The tour was fun this year. A few sales, & lots of appreciative visitors. Almost everyone said they'd never seen anything like these pieces, which I call "sculptural water colors".Jayme
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Monday, October 5, 2009
The annual Whatcom Artists Studio Tour is NOW!
October, 2009.........harvest moonlight bathing the hills & filling our living room cum gallery, & my studio cleaned up for showing off clay pieces with lovely silveriness.
This weekend almost 100 people found their ways to The Wild Plum Studio. The most common comment was that they'd never seen anything like my pieces (& they also seemed to like them!).
Many of the visitors were artists themselves........so fun to hear about their lives & work.
One small sale & lots of enthusiasm.
This weekend almost 100 people found their ways to The Wild Plum Studio. The most common comment was that they'd never seen anything like my pieces (& they also seemed to like them!).
Many of the visitors were artists themselves........so fun to hear about their lives & work.
One small sale & lots of enthusiasm.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
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Saturday, July 25, 2009
July 25th, 2009
Mid summer.......ahhhh.
Music Festival is over, highlight for me being in the chorus for Brahms' "Requiem" + full professional orchestra. We rehearsed with Michael Palmer for 6 weeks, twice a week, plus a week stuffed with final & dress rehearsals right before. Wonderful!!
Now finishing up 10 clay pieces for a 4-woman art show at Allied Arts about landscape.
In a day or so I'll take fotos of the pieces & post them here.
Then our entire family up to Desolation Sound to hang out together in that paradise of
forest, inland sea, oysters, driftwood, & Grandpa Bob's amazing breakfasts!
Mid summer.......ahhhh.
Music Festival is over, highlight for me being in the chorus for Brahms' "Requiem" + full professional orchestra. We rehearsed with Michael Palmer for 6 weeks, twice a week, plus a week stuffed with final & dress rehearsals right before. Wonderful!!
Now finishing up 10 clay pieces for a 4-woman art show at Allied Arts about landscape.
In a day or so I'll take fotos of the pieces & post them here.
Then our entire family up to Desolation Sound to hang out together in that paradise of
forest, inland sea, oysters, driftwood, & Grandpa Bob's amazing breakfasts!
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
I'm aware when working with clay, that I'm handling a small bit of this earth we all live in & on. And come to think of it, the minerals that make up the colors applied to the fired pieces are other, rarer bits of planet Earth.
Sometimes I make containers....a traditional role for clay. Their surfaces are usually clay/earth stressed by pulling, stretching, pushing, tearing: my own intimate versions of earthquakes, eruptions, foldings, sliding continental plates. Recently I've made tablets to go inside these vessels....that can be taken out, & replaced, too! What a fluid & dynamic world we inhabit!
I also love making clay landscapes.....chunks of land with things going on. Recently I've thought of these as stage sets, where you could imagine human characters entering & interacting with the scenery. Or sometimes, I feel like we are spectators looking from the outside at the clay event, wondering what it is we're seeing....things 1/2-hidden, suggested, suggestive, ambiguous.
And color: I've been sneaking up on color for a few years now. At first, I just used darks to bring out the contours & textures of the clay.....heightening the forms with layers of subtle color.
The result was pastel, shimmery.
I often lay skin-thin layers of clay over each other....so you can just make out that there are things going on underneath. Or make windows in those skins so you can really see part of what's below. It's like collaging with clay.
One day I began glueing actual pieces of colored paper onto the surface of the fired clay....traditional collaging on an unconventional surface. This suddenly introduced the fully-saturated color onto the pieces, that had been missing with the delicate coloring I'd used before.
COLOR!!
And the surprises in borrowed images!
Hours & hours of solitary time spent in the pursuit of the aha's:
when the wet clay takes its final shape;
when the layers & layers of color give life back to the fired clay;
when a body of work seems to add up to part of at least one person's experience of being of this earth.
Sometimes I make containers....a traditional role for clay. Their surfaces are usually clay/earth stressed by pulling, stretching, pushing, tearing: my own intimate versions of earthquakes, eruptions, foldings, sliding continental plates. Recently I've made tablets to go inside these vessels....that can be taken out, & replaced, too! What a fluid & dynamic world we inhabit!
I also love making clay landscapes.....chunks of land with things going on. Recently I've thought of these as stage sets, where you could imagine human characters entering & interacting with the scenery. Or sometimes, I feel like we are spectators looking from the outside at the clay event, wondering what it is we're seeing....things 1/2-hidden, suggested, suggestive, ambiguous.
And color: I've been sneaking up on color for a few years now. At first, I just used darks to bring out the contours & textures of the clay.....heightening the forms with layers of subtle color.
The result was pastel, shimmery.
I often lay skin-thin layers of clay over each other....so you can just make out that there are things going on underneath. Or make windows in those skins so you can really see part of what's below. It's like collaging with clay.
One day I began glueing actual pieces of colored paper onto the surface of the fired clay....traditional collaging on an unconventional surface. This suddenly introduced the fully-saturated color onto the pieces, that had been missing with the delicate coloring I'd used before.
COLOR!!
And the surprises in borrowed images!
Hours & hours of solitary time spent in the pursuit of the aha's:
when the wet clay takes its final shape;
when the layers & layers of color give life back to the fired clay;
when a body of work seems to add up to part of at least one person's experience of being of this earth.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Today is June 12th, & all the musicians in that foto, minus the little boy, & plus a black labrador dog, met at Lorraine's house which is perched up in the forest above Lake Samish. We hiked beneath a wild rose arbor, down many switchbacks, to their dock carrying celebratory edibles, put up a large umbrella, & enjoyed ourselves for two hours in the sunshine by the water.
I hope we get to do another concert next spring!
I hope we get to do another concert next spring!
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Friday, April 3, 2009
Just looked at all the new fotos & stories on Kate's & Jonx's blog. If you like gardens & bees, you should go look for yourself: www.blogspot.com/thedailyharvest.
Soon I'll post fotos of those new pieces with color!
I'm hustling to get them done so I can take fotos of them for the Whatcom Artists Studio Tour brochure.
Still cold here. Almost-snow this a.m. But there are so many hours of sunlight that all the plants are putting out little leaves, buds, color. A hummingbird passes through every day or so. The birds are noisy, pairing up, chasing each other. Chickadees have now tried out 3 of the 5 bird houses in our yard.
Soon I'll post fotos of those new pieces with color!
I'm hustling to get them done so I can take fotos of them for the Whatcom Artists Studio Tour brochure.
Still cold here. Almost-snow this a.m. But there are so many hours of sunlight that all the plants are putting out little leaves, buds, color. A hummingbird passes through every day or so. The birds are noisy, pairing up, chasing each other. Chickadees have now tried out 3 of the 5 bird houses in our yard.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Pottery from Acton St
I have recently been really interested in pod shapes with holes in them.
I have been using a spoon to burnish them.
I'm finally getting a sheen on them that I am happy with.
Thanks Jonathan for the pictures!
Saturday, March 7, 2009
It's March 7th, & snowed abit this a.m. in Bellingham, WA.
I am very ready for spring. The birds appear to be, too. Much yodelling, chasing, looking beautiful, checking out of nest boxes. Hellebores are unfurling outside my window....blossoms just opening. They're the first after the tiny crocuses & snowdrops.
Soon I'll post fotos of the new clay pieces I'm building, with August show at Allied Arts Gallery in mind.
Today..........off to Seattle to see the Jodhpur Miniatures exhibit at the Asian Art Museum.........
& to the Opera: Bluebeard's Castle!
J.
I am very ready for spring. The birds appear to be, too. Much yodelling, chasing, looking beautiful, checking out of nest boxes. Hellebores are unfurling outside my window....blossoms just opening. They're the first after the tiny crocuses & snowdrops.
Soon I'll post fotos of the new clay pieces I'm building, with August show at Allied Arts Gallery in mind.
Today..........off to Seattle to see the Jodhpur Miniatures exhibit at the Asian Art Museum.........
& to the Opera: Bluebeard's Castle!
J.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
More Clay
Here "Whatcom Creek" is in its final location, the office of the Wade King Recreation Center at WWU. The building was built with $$ from the family of one of the young boys who was killed in the explosion & resulting enormous gas fire.A Clay Piece
"Whatcom Creek", a 3-part landscape about the pipeline explosion in Bellingham.This piece has a permanent home on the campus of Western Washington University.
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