I am now gearing up for holiday sales. The past week I have started making functional goodies for the kitchen, beginning with mugs, which seems to be everyone’s favorite! This coming week I will be making batter bowls, large serving bowls and more soup bowls.

So happy to be invited by Ceramics Monthly to write an article on my studio and studio practice! The “Studio Visit” section of the Ceramics Monthly has always been a favorite of mine. Each month when I receive my issue of the magazine one of the first articles I read is the Studio Visit.

Learning pottery at the wheel can be really difficult. It takes good eye hand coordination and lots of patience. Students learning pottery these days have plenty of information at their finger tips through Instagram, Youtube and Facebook. When I was learning back in the 1980’s we had books.

I discovered something by mistake, (which often happens:)... I made these little dipping dishes for soy sauce, olive oil etc, but found another use for them as a mug topper!