Height: 14 cm; diameter: 16 cm; porcelaneous stoneware, fired to cone 6, in oxidation.

I am still intrigued by, and happy to work with the same matte, copper carbonate glaze as well as the slips I was using for my earlier Ottawa Guild of Potters’ solo Celebrating Clay exhibition. Those were a collection of tall, hand-built cylinders, with some small wheel thrown vases.

What’s different this year is that I am pleased to be back throwing at the wheel, and enjoying throwing larger and larger pieces. This one is one from a couple of months ago, and still small. But there will be more, and hopefully I can confidently reproduce this bluey-green colour, which for me recalls the quiet, always changing surface of Ontario ponds and lakes