by Carole Epp | Feb 5, 2011 | Uncategorized
My name is Sharlene Sieloff and my Etsy shop name is
Shars Art Pottery.
I started my art adventure over fifty years ago.
It has been a blessing to do what I love in my own business (photography studio) for most of that time.
I have enjoyed giving workshops and classes in painting, pottery and sculpture to great students over the years. Now I am retired and can continue to play with the “art of the day”.
I have studied at many art schools including: Cranbrook Academy of Art, Pewabic Pottery, Kay Issacson School of Painting, Naguibe School of Sculpture, and Brooks School of Photographic Arts.
by Carole Epp | Feb 4, 2011 | Uncategorized
Thanks to Carol Watkins for today’s amazing work.
In her words:
“I handbuild usually, in a pile-it-on, hollow-it-out method. I use varying surface techniques, anything from cold finishing with bondo and acrylic to multiple firings with underglazes and lusters.
A few of my heros are Beth Cavener Stichter, Sergei Isupov, and Anne Drew Potter.”
(hmm good heros, they are some of mine too!)
by Carole Epp | Feb 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
I began working in clay in 2006 when I phased out my landscaping and lavender farm business. I started at the community college with cone 10 reduction work and I am self taught with my present work in cone 6 oxidation using slab, coil and pinch methods of construction.
I enjoy every part of the process and look forward to each day in the studio. I’m inspired by nature, architecture and my travels in my work. I attend as many workshops as I can and glean so much helpful information from blogs. I recently opened an Etsy shop to sell my pottery.
I can be also be reached through my blog which lists my snail and email information at
http://bluestarrgallery.blogspot.com/
by Carole Epp | Feb 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
Bio:
I fell in love with pottery when I was a junior in high school. This love of creating clay forms led me to decide that I was going to be a potter when I grew up. I was accepted at The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University based on my portfolio work.
Little did I know, I would never grow up.
After leaving school, I traveled around the country in a 1971 Pinto with extended stays in New York, Virginia, Wisconsin and Birmingham. I eventually settled in Atlanta, GA where I tried for 27 years to live the life expected of me, working corporate jobs and such.
I have finally returned to the wheel and to the career that has been calling to me to get “back down to Earth.” I now throw at my studio in East Atlanta Village . My award-winning works have been shown in juried shows in the New York and Atlanta Metro areas including the Telephone Factory Lofts Art Show and the Inman Park Festival.
Check out more about Lori and her awesome work on her website: http://FutureRelicsGallery.com
by Carole Epp | Feb 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
Here we go folks – a month of daily doses of eye candy.
What a treat to start off the month with the amazing work of Sue Roberts. Enjoy!
Artist’s Statement:
From a young age I have been inspired by the human figure, so sculpting the figure just seemed to come naturally to me. I especially enjoy the challenge of capturing in clay the range of our inner psyches, manifesting through the figure’s gesture, posture and expression.
Humor and social commentary play a large part in my work, especially that of family and relationships. culturally, we generalize the concept of family and relationships, turning them into more of an ideal than reality.
Having fun with those generalizations underscores the importance of not taking ourselves too seriously, or becoming stuck within our own thoughts and perceptions. For me, there is a powerful inner strength that arises in being playful and open to new and different ideas and experiences. as an artist, that strength inspires and excites me to keep thinking differently about the human world and, at the same time, push myself creatively.
Find out more about Sue and her work here on her website. There is much much more to look at.
