It’s a pleasure to share Yael’s decorated first pinch pots - they’re so beautiful! Just looking at them lifts your spirits 💫🌞
#pinchpots
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My hand holding a small, unfired teapot at the leather hard phase, so the clay is still a rich, brown color with a slight sheen. The pot features a stylishly curved handle, a small spout and a lid with a finial that sort of resembles the comb on a rooster’s head or perhaps an abstract flower.
I think I enjoy hand building and wheel throwing equally. My upcoming online workshop (previous post) will focus on hand building because it’s the most accessible way to make pottery—no equipment needed. I went through a phase of forming teapots with […]
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Hand built pottery bowl.
This bowl is a metaphor for my self discovery journey, its textures and deliberate cracks symbolize how I'm mending past brokenness into a stronger self.
#handbuiltceramics #potteryart #ceramicsartist #claytherapy #slabbuilt #coilpots #pinchpots #handbuiltpottery #keramikkonst #krukmakeri
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Two black espresso cups stacked on top of one another.
I’ve been making like crazy and it’s so nice to unload the kiln and see the results.
I’m happy with how things have come out, especially these two little cups that just can’t wait to hold some morning espresso.
#pinchpots #ceramics
#pottersofbluesky #terrasig #terrasigillata
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working through some things in the studio. colored clay.
#ceramics #pinchpots #porcelain #cups #hownottoclay #drobnock #drinkme
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Two small bud vases sitting on a wooden shelf. A beige bud vase sits in front of a red bud vase.
Quick snap of two of my baby bud vases sitting in the Gathering US shop in downtown Boston. The pomegranate terra sig color in back has quickly become my favorite.
#terrasig #terrasigillata #pinchpot #pinchpots #handmade #slowliving #wabisabi
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Seven inches tall, newly made pinched porcelain vessel. Standing on a narrow foot that seems to disappear. The form is a bright sky or cobalt blue that will become even more intense after firing. The surface is deeply textured, due to the unique pinching technique that Christine Pedersen has developed over her last 25 years of pinching clay. This technique means that each piece is always unique--the texture emerges from the clay, as the artist encourages the clay to tell its story.
Pinching process underway: looking down into a half-made blue porcelain vessel, resting gently in the artist's hand. Its' interior is beautifully smooth, though the exterior is intensely textured. Another highly textured blue vessel is in the background waiting for its turn to be worked on.
A couple of blues.
My pinching process gives both of us--me, and the clay--time to develop our stories.
#upsalablue #porcelain #contemporaryporcelain #SIO2 #artiststudio #ceramics #womensart #pinchpots #contemporaryancient #handmade #calgary #slowdown #slowart
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A trio of green bud vases sitting on a wooden shelf
The last of their kind (for now, at least). This deep green didn’t make the cut for my final color palette. Still, it’s a pretty nice color - maybe it’ll make it into a special seasonal line…
#terrasig #terrasigillata #ceramics #pottersofbluesky #pinchpot #pinchpots
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Iron Goddess of Mercy tea in two pinchpot cups as Micky barked at the birds. #teameditation #morningritual #oolong #tea #pinchpots #prayingforpeace #prayingforsafereturn
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Pictured: screenshot from the slides for my talk—many handmade pinched ceramic vases, filled with flowers. I'm trying to cram as many pretty flowers in vases onto one slide as possible, just for the joy of them! All photos taken in my yellow dining room as a backdrop.
Lots of bread--I'm carb-loading for strength tomorrow! Gluten-free vegan sourdough batons, and a tray of raisin ginger sticky buns. Also made my honey a wholemeal sourdough, with my GF starter and some strong spring red wheat bread flour--he says it's delicious, tastes like proper Hovis. I am so happy for him, and equally gutted that I can't stuff a big hunk of it into my face!
It’s really tough figuring out what goes in and what to leave out of an artist talk, I mean, I’ve basically got 25 years of homework to review since I was a studio member at North Mount Pleasant Arts Centre. Strap in! 💥😆
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#ceramics #canadianceramics #pinchpots #artisttalk #yyc #yycartist #vase
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I grew up playing with clay around me in central #VT as well! #Pinchpots for the win! We would press flowers, leaves, and pebbles into them, too! These days when we kayak I admire the clay banks and think back to those times! Best part…when left unfired and outside…everything returns to nature!
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Three tiny ceramic pots holding an air plant
Tiny little pots that bring big joy 🌱✨
#ceramic #pottery #pinchpots #airplants
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Poster for an artist talk by Christine Pedersen, on March 28, 2025, at North Mount Pleasant Art Centre in Calgary, Canada. Title is "Pinch, Push, and Flow: Finding a Voice in Clay Through Form and Texture, With a Little Destruction Along The Way". Image shows a collage of porcelain forms in her signature style, with deeply textured and refined modelled surfaces. At the back of the group is a chased bronze circular form representing her studies at AUA in the Jewellery + Metals program. Quote: "I started clay classes at North Mount in 1996, a year after I emigrated from England to Canada—it was that education and community that helped me develop the skills to set up my home studio. I’ll be diving into my process, doing some demos, and generally obsessing about all things clay (with a bit of metal sneaking in)". Hope to see you there!
Excited to share I’ll be presenting an artist talk on March 28, 7pm, at my clay alma mater--the lovely North Mount Pleasant Art Centre, in Calgary. Hope to see you there!
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#artisttalk #ceramics #materiality #yycart #yycartist #handbuilding #pinchpots #canadianceramics #christinepedersenceramics
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I don't make cups often but when I do I usually punch pot em. #pinchpots #ceramics #clay #art #artist #fun #happy #sad
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Stoneware ceramic vase with green, turquoise and cracked texture
hoose #20pots or ceramic pieces that you have made. One pot per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
#3 nature inspired vase
#ceramics #pottery #nature #pottersofbluesky #pinchpots #stoneware #clay
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Pinched vase/vessel, with undulating landscape rim. Acorn shape--narrow foot swells to level shoulder, with uneven gestural rim reminiscent of hills and trees. BMix clay with pale green celadon glaze showing the deeply textured surface. Woodfired to cone 9/10, bare clay has a gentle peach blushes.
Potshot, woodfired bowls vessels, bowls and dishes all over my photography area. Lots of colours--torqoise, green, brown, carbon-trapped grey.
Unpack pots right where you need to work on photography 🙄 --then move all the pots so everyone can get their moment in the spotlight. Older work, documenting/writing ahead of an upcoming talk.
#potshot #ceramics #pottersofbluesky #woodfired #woodfiredceramics #womenwhowoodfire #handbuilt #pinchpots
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Choose #20pots or ceramic pieces that you have made. One pot per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
#2 nesting pinch pots
#ceramics #pottery #nature #pottersofbluesky #pinchpots #stoneware #clay
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Organic, pinched pots by Wisconsin ceramics artist Kate Marotz
Tomorrow! Kate Marotz ✨
Launching Friday, Jan 31st at 10 AM CST—new work by Wisconsin artist Kate Marotz! Her stoneware pinch pots and organic forms celebrate texture, process, and function. Don’t miss it!
#KateMarotz #HandmadeCeramics #Stoneware #PinchPots #CeramicArt
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Title: Three (Of a Kind). Tall white porcelain vessel; three joined, curving, rounded forms rise and sway, with three curved and modelled openings near the top of each form. Sitting on a Douglas Fir block, light flooding inside shows up the curved forms in the interior. Side-lighting highlights the remains of gentle finger marks in the smooth, matte surface.
The same porcelain vessel, photographed in bright white studio light. Title: Three (Of a Kind). Tall white porcelain vessel; three joined, curving, rounded forms rise and sway, with three curved and modelled openings near the top of each form. All-around lighting removes some of the information about the minimal finger marks remaining in the smooth, matte surface.
Musing about photographing ceramics, whilst sat on my numb butt writing applications. I learn so much about a piece by looking at it through the lens, in every kind of light.
#art #pottersofbluesky #porcelain #studioceramics #pinchpots #clay #ceramics #sculpture #sculpturalceramics
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Testing...learning how long a studio/phone video can be to limbo under the 50 Mb limit. Editing in iMovie, can't compress. This is 44s 🤞😬 (Tall footed porcelain vessel from an earlier post).
#pottersofbluesky #porcelain #ceramics #pinchpots #clay #pottery #handmade #artist #makervideo
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Ceramic bell made with Chris’ light Speckle and Coyote Eggshell #pottery #pinchpots tutorial - Margriet Kramer
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I pinch clay. Pieces can be weeks in the making, coaxing and cultivating intense surface texture, revealing the inner life of the clay. #crunchy #porcelain #pinchpots #clay #bisque #oxidation #cone10 #canadianceramics
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Our very own Miss Charlene provided an excellent demonstration at the #SouthsideLibrary last Saturday, giving folks an opportunity to make their very own #PinchPots! This was well-loved by grown-ups and kids alike. (Not to mention staff!!)
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Water Spirit. #ceramics #pottery #clay #art #artist #sculpture #wave #beach #water #ocean #pinchpots #handbuilding #glazing #nature
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