Moscow Late Winter Art Show, 2011

Some members of Palouse Studio Potters Guild showed their work in State Farm Insurance building as part of the All City Art Show that coincided with the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival. State Farm has been generous in sharing its Main Street business space with artists of the Region.

First display upon entering the building is by Jeanne Wood. Her work is wheel thrown and then carved, or they may have underglaze painting as surface decoration. All painting is done freehand.

Jeanne's work here is high fired and all functional pottery.

Judith Marvin's work is next in line. Much of Judith's recent work has been handbuilt and primitive fired work. The taller vase is a raku pot and the bowl is covered with terra sigilatta and then pit fired to get the smoke blackened areas.

Here are Judith's highfired handbuilt vase and her saggar fired wheel thrown vessel. The colors on the smaller pot are not glazes, just the effects of the flame and smoke in the sagger-style firing. High-fired glaze covers the texture of the vase.

Undersea forms are the inspiration for Val Boydo's current sculptural ceramic art.

Hand building is the prefered method for Val's creative art. They shine with lusterous glaze.


This deserves a closer look.

Carolyn Guy does mostly wheel thrown work, but some of her pieces, such as the large bowl on the right are handbuilt. Carolyn constructed this bowl using the drape mold technique.

Carolyn alters each of her pots after they are thrown. All are one of a kind pieces and are of high fired porcelain. Carolyn makes her own porcelain clay and glazes.

An Empty Bowl workshop

For Empty Bowls, we often encourage friends who are not potters to paint designs on bisqued bowls with underglazes. We then cover their designs with a transparent glaze and fire as usual. It is always a treat to see what people come up with and their unusual approaches to surface design.
The following pictures was from a bowl painting workshop in Lacey WA. We painted a whopping 24 bowls that afternoon.

Gavin Eveland, the young man is a painter in oils. His approach to painting bowls is unquestionably different.

Tamm is an all-around artist. Her work is being admired by Aaron, her greatest fan.

More people donating their time and talent to make Empty Bowls a success. In addition they are having a great time working on their designs.

Although this is a blurry picture, Patrick's concentration is still apparent. The bowls he painted were crazy and creative.