Love and inspiration

It's the day after Valentine's day and I came upon this heart blockprint. It was a gift from India and I've carried it around with me for years. When I first began working with clay in 2003, I was very fortunate to take a workshop at a community center. There I learned to make pinch pots and coil pots, to create texture with stamps and found objects, to work with earthenware and stoneware and porcelain, to  make paper clay and mold it onto shapes I never imagined.  I was given free reign to experiment with oxides and pigments and colors. It was the beginning of a love affair with ceramics that continues to to this day. Which in this case is kind of fitting. 

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