Pieces of the Silva Collection
Silva Collection
“ANIMATE EARTH”
The Silva Collection draws on conversations and walks I had with Emily Johnson. In my studio I started to explore a few different concepts based on the boulders, mountain vistas and waterfall basins that we visited last year. About a couple of weeks into this exploration I recalled a small meadow we passed by on the way down to the Kaaterskill falls filled with dried grasses and wildflowers. The grasses had dropped some of their seeds and looking more closely, examining them in my hands I noticed some were split open creating flattened surfaces. Somehow the mystery of these dried seed hulls started to nudge me while I was working through some of the other sketches. Maybe it’s the mystery of the cyclical nature of these small but powerful life force s containing seed pods that got me thinking about how they are carried distances by the rain and wind . Replant ing themselves in different areas the seeds then enter a winter rest period before starting the cycle all over again.
Wave Platters in Sand
Hand coiled stoneware vases in Jasper Green
Vases
Cedar Rider and Flax Yellow Emmet Vases
Tullan Muse Vase
Hand-coiled stoneware vase with three open minarets in a satin white drip glaze.
Vases
Hand-built Jasper Green Rider Vase
Vases
Hand-built Black Oval Bowl with Rider Vase
Glaze Testing
Meadow Bowls
Hand-built White Meadow Bowl
Wander Sculpture
Hand-built Jasper Green Wander Sculpture with Rider Vase
Wheel-thrown Rider Vases in Cedar Brown and Midnight Blue
Arc Ceramics
Hand-built White and Black Meadow bowls with Mustard Petal Vase
Amphora White
Wheel-thrown Diamond Vases in a satin white drip glaze
Narrow Neck Greenware
The drying game, Greenware stage
Planter
Special order. Custom 9” Planter painted in abstract Black glaze
Hand-built Tall Rider Vases in Jasper Green
Meadow Bowls
Hand-built Meadow bowls in Aegean Blue, Grey and Black
Meadow Bowls
Hand-built Meadow Bowls in White, Jasper, Black and Grey
Platters
Hand-built Wave Platter in Black
Petal Vases
Wheel-thrown and hand built Petal Vases in Mustard Yellow
Vases
Vera, Diamond and Petal Vases in Textured Black
Wheel-thrown and hand built Moss Petal costarring mustard bud vase
Vases
Greenware drying waiting to be kiln fired
Vases
Tall hand-built abstract Vase in textured drip glaze
Wheel-thrown and hand-built Mustard Petal and Bud Vases
Vases
Wheel-thrown and hand built White Petal Vase costarring a Black Abstract Petal, a Sand Shape Vase and carved Bud Vase in White
Hand-built Abstract Vases in Black and White
Abstract Petal Vessels
Vases
Wheel-thrown and hand carved Faceted Vases
Platters
Hand-built Platters in textured Black
Petal Vessel detail, unfired clay
Wheel-thrown White Stoneware Planters
Petal Vessels
Wheel-thrown and hand-built Petal Vessels in textured Black
Sculpture
Hand-built Wander Sculpture
Sculpture
Wheel-thrown and hand built project
Pitcher
Wheel-thrown Pitcher and Cups in textured Black
Arc Ceramics Pitcher and Sake Set
Wheel-thrown Sake Set and Pitcher in a satin Layered White Glaze
Pitcher
Wheel-thrown Pitchers in textured Black
Tableware
Wheel-thrown Platters, Plates and Bowls in textured Black
Sake Set
Wheel-thrown Sake Set in textured Black
Sculpture
Hand-built Wander Sculpture in a White Drip Glaze
Former Mushrooms on Arc platter
Wheel-thrown Stoneware Plates in Black and White
Large Wheel-thrown Platter in textured Black
Test Tiles
Glaze Test Tiles in the Blue and Green Spectrum
Glaze Test Tiles
Cutting glaze test tiles by hand
Test Tiles
Glaze Test Tiles on various Clay Bodies
Test Tiles
Neutral Glaze Test Tiles on various Clay Bodies