I have been very much influenced recently by several potters I met early on when I first started pottery more than 10 years ago. For a long while I was working on throwing and trimming super thin vessels with perfectly circular feet, and striving for perfection, inspired by Yoshi Fuji and his truly stunning work, by my first (and favorite,) professor, Michelle Coakes, and her beautiful, simple and quirky pieces so filled with personality. But over the years I kept coming back to Linda Christensen, and her funny, beautiful, imperfect work that wasn’t flawless but just kind of worked and felt nice when you use it. In all honesty I wasn’t sure if I liked them or not the first time I saw them, but they have STUCK in my brain like a burr. Very recently, I abandoned my pursuit of perfection and decided a few months back that the perfection I was seeking was just making a really, REALLY nice coffee mug. The one that becomes your favorite, and you can’t figure out why, the one you reach for and are bummed when you realize it’s in the dishwasher. The one you drink a slow morning coffee, tea or cocoa out of on the weekends. I’m still working on my perfectionist tendencies, (an untrimmed foot?! NO.) but I really love the direction I’m heading in now because it feels the most like “Me” here’s to growth in 2025 🍻
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Ceramic bowl and tube vase - inspired by natural rock formations

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Fisheries Museum saltbank schooner Theresa E Conner receiving maintenance on the slip in Lunenburg, NS. #photography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #silhouette #schooner #lunenburgnovascotia #boat #ship #marine #nautical #woodenboat #EastCoastKin

Two views - in portrait & landscape - of a wooden sailboat laid up in a Nova Scotia boatyard. In years past, the Mar provided harbour cruises in Halifax. #photography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #sailboat #boat #novascotia #nautical #marine #maritime #EastCoastKin

Hands On

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