More Cali Press!

Thanks JoAnn Hartley!
It's been a full 4 years since we moved to Maine, so this mention by designer JoAnn was so sweet.

These photos are from Marin magazines article of a few years ago featuring my work, but her recent write up is in the SF Chronicle It's super nice to get a mention.
We've been up to so much and I've been so bad about updating that I'm not sure what to mention first. I've go my fingers crossed that these samples become a job:



and we've just started working with a talented metal guy Matt Koestner



So Much to tell! visit our Facebook page for more!!!!

San Francisco Press:

photo by George Waldman

Thank-You Jason of Eco-System Landscape solutions! Jason is a friend we met in the glass studio in California. He is a very talented landscape designer and it has been great to catch up with him and see that he is successfully making beautiful work that improves the way landscapes impact our enviroment. Oh and his work is beautiful too! Check out this mention of the project we worked on with him in the San francisco Examiner...

Percolations.........

Winter is supposed to be a time for internal percolating, yet somehow we are busier than ever! While the days are chilly we are keeping warm with the studio coming up with new work and refining some pieces for the upcoming Craft Boston show. We have also just been invited to be vendors at the Brunswick Winter Market in Fort Andross. We are excited to join our neighbors in this local artisans food and craft market. Otherwise the only news is there isn't enough snow for my tastes (dangerous words I know), and Charlie has been on a beer brewing run.
Happy Valentines Day!

random publicity and other meanderings...

Belated thanks to the folks at designgrid a blog who posted images from my web site a while back...



I went looking for the image online because the client has recently asked Tandem Glass to remake this vase, and my own web-site is under construction so I just ran an image search under my name on google....(oh how I love thee google), and up came designgrid's post..I must say I'm glad I stumbled accross it.

Other studio news is pretty sparse. We are hunkering down for the winter here what with unseasonably cool temperatures. It's good inspiration to have the shop on! Getting outdoor projects finished up , and preparing for a few shows. Many Thanks to Randy Fein who is putting on the artful gift show in camden...She's got an image of a rust slinky on the show postcard, and web-site

it's for sale on etsy people !!!
There's a really great rusty chocolate transparent one that would look really good with it too....hmmm gotta go grab my camera.

Mood Indigo...

threads.....

Yesterdays after: Today's Before

It's hard to orient you the viewer to what is happening here. But its HUGELY exciting!
We will be able to see people when they walk into the building, and they will see a clean gallery space, then us working. They won't be blinded by the incoming light, instead they will see panels that hold glass illuminated by the sun...

Recent Studio Press:

Spring is here, and what with a new niece and some renovations underway at Tandem Glass its been a bit hard to concentrate! Things are starting to sprout out of the earth, and I'm waiting for about 100 bulbs to go off under our sign. We have been doing our best to take advantage of the quiet before summer hits to make a few escapes and get organized.

I've been slowly making a few "flask" shapes. There is something about this form that I love.....I promise to get some pic's up soon! Or you can just go to the the article. Tony R Bennet of The Times Record took a shot of them. Just click on the title of this article to get there.

Thank you Elizabeth Gilbert

What a great talk on creativity.......

Chit Chat:

As part of my recent quest to get more experience with public speaking I will be talking (for exactly 6 minutes and 40 seconds) at Pecha Kucha. Meaning Chit chat in Japanese this great international forum is meant to energize and connect people. Charlie and I went to the most recent one in Rockland, Me. and heard: a boat builder, gardener, photographer, ceramicist, woodworker, painter, and sculptor speak. Check it out as it is bound to be in your neck of the woods sometime.
Here's the line-up:

MC: Arthur Fink

Terrill Waldman/Jenkins, Glass blower - Inspiration from Nature.
Jeff Swanson, Photographer - Arts & Equity Portland Police Poetry Project
Fred Abaroa, Maine Coast Botanical Gardens - An Unexpected Oasis on the Maine Coast

Scott Collard, Landscape Architect - How to Present Work
John Ossie, Architect, Artist - Pen and Ink drawings

Intermission

Ruthanne Harrison, Artist, Architecture Student - Connections between painting and architecture
George Smith, President, Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts -
Martin Simpson, Furniture maker - images of his work
Dave Wade, Photographer - Arts & Equity project Portland Police photographs
Liza Kelley & Teddy Stoecklein, Graphic designers, The VIA Group - Believe. Good luck, Mr. President.

bye bye !

This is another installment of cups shipped out today to a collector in Co. I've been working on them since this summer I think! At least this fall.... Many of them have been through a few incarnations as I closed in on Un je ne sais quoi. sloughing off more layers they have gone from polished to rough to polished to rough and back again. This one above especially.
This style is inspired by lotus pods, and also tip of the hat to Whitney whose work is really informed by botanicals. I own alot of her pottery, so even in the dead of winter I have her seed pods and sprouts around to remind me of summer...
I actually sent her one of these cups after a suprise (an indescribably fabulous and unsuspected delivery of a set of her stacking bowls) came in the mail. The one she received had been polished completely clear, and I wasn't sure what I thought about it. She echoed my inner misgivings stating: "too perfect", and it was too. earily machined looking it could have come from a factory (shudder). and yet I had put literally days of work into it going back and forth from polished to rough to polished again (during which it got lighter and thinner and lighter and thinner).



This one you see above is what I gleaned from that experience. After worrying these things to death (literally I've broken many massaging some stupid little flaw till it cracked, bled to death right there in my hand and joined its sister soldiers on the bone pile). I concluded: They are like worry stones. This whole process of "etching" is really more like sanding inexorably away at the thing. holding the same position in front of some machine as I move from a rough to fine finish with only my ipod to save me. It takes forever! You have to just embrace the stogy slowness of it all, and move through it. I like work that reflects its process so I thank this collector for getting so many because I had to finish them!!! I have intention now and some designs I hope I'll get to again. I create them now so that you can see the hand that made them. Suitably this makes them feel so nice in the hand. I regret to say I did'nt photograph one that really shows this process of creating a texture and then revealing it with a bit of a polish ( back to work me!). It takes a quick hand and intention. It looks so wonderful.
My favorite pieces before I worked on the lathe were the ones where it seemed you could see my breathe still in the vessel,like it was inhaling. That is what life is: when something has breathe in it. Now I think it will include the reference of the touch of my hand.

Oh, I hope to be looking out the ferry cabin window at this soon:



It was 27 below here last night!