It's New Year's Day and Steve and I have just completed our first project for 2011!
For years I have promised myself that I would create ways to properly display my overwhelming collection of pottery. Ha! Never happened. Until now.
We are blessed with a large L-shaped hallway in our ranch home that is perfect for a gallery. So over several weekends I donned my faux jammies and plastered a neutral background and added one focus wall using a leftover stencil from a recent cool project.
Steve crafted the wooden blocks with hidden flushmount hardware, and we hung everything today.
So Voila! Here are some of my after photos featuring two of my favorite local potters - husband and wife team Judy and Steve Cannon. I kid them that I am their most avid fan as you will see. The Cannons have not been able to practice the art they are so passionate about just now, so owning these beautiful pieces is even more precious to me.
Judy loves handbuilding functional pottery. I fell in love with her red glazed bowls years ago and bought every one she made. Her boxes are little works of art awaiting a treasure to store.
Steve's work is mostly raku. I begged him to make the calico kitty after I bought the two raku cats. He huffed and puffed and hemmed and hawed and said no it couldn't be done in raku. A year later he presented it to me unexpectedly. Not in raku...
So worth waiting for!
By the way, watching us work is exhausting!
Design Sources:
Oversized stencil - "Organica" by Wallovers
Wood for blocks - DH Griffin Salvage, Greensboro, NC
Tall lamp - IKEA Charlotte
