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SOUP TUREENS, CASSEROLES, VASES, PIE PLATES, PLATTERS, MUGS, PITCHERS, BOWLS, COOKIE JARS, CANISTER SETS, CHIP AND DIP SETS. Steve's pottery is thrown with a white stoneware and decorated with large brush strokes, often using colored clays under the glaze and colored washes on top of the glaze. Contact Steve: steve@ccmtnpotters.com Or: 303-642-3019 ~ FAX: 303-642-0452
Artist's Statement My pottery is wheel-thrown stoneware, fired to 2150 F in an electric kiln. I often use thick clay slips-composed of several native clays-as decoration under my matt glazes. Overglaze materials (sometimes other glazes, sometimes clays) are often applied on top of the glazes. I like to know why the materials I buy from my ceramic supplier work the way they do, why some glaze surfaces are matt, others glossy, why some are opaque, others transparent or mottled. And I like to experiment with local materials--to see what happens if fireplace ashes are added to a glaze, or low-fire red clay or the dust that piles up from drilling for water through mountain granite. I am still a sucker for the gee whiz feeling that comes from making a pot from clay dug out of the side of a hill, or a road-cut or the leavings of an abandoned clay mine. I also try to pay attention to form and line and color and to the varying effects of heat on these most interesting materials that potters work with. Like other potters, I struggle to keep life in my pots, to make the hard finished object more than just a faint memory of the yielding, tactile material that was, like each new ball of clay, full of possibilities.
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