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It was love at first touch for clay and me. My first experience with the ceramic material was in a high school art class. The football coach-cum-art teacher handed a few of us a bag of stoneware, a book on the subject, and allowed us to experiment without instruction. I didn’t forget the encounter and soon after landing post-college I enrolled in my first pottery class on New York's Upper West Side. The teacher started me off pinching a small pot. Between my thumb and fingers the clay felt deliciously familiar as I worked it from moist round ball into a useful and beautiful glazed fired ware. I now teach hand-building to adults and children at Cornerstone Pottery Studio. I also work out of my home pottery studio in Yonkers. I pinch ceramic forms, the most rudimentary way of moving clay, and often alter and augment these forms to create larger and more complicated shapes for home, yard and garden. I also work small-scale, making unique jewelry, and component beads, pendants and findings. |