Snake bowl #2

I really love the breaks in the glaze on this bowl. The green is so wonderfully slimy!

Snake bowl #1

kick in the face bowl

These legs are so difficult to work with. This bowl is really just a way for me to practice working with small, thin, and all around delicate parts. I have been trying things with these horse legs for a while now but this is only the second success I have had (horse butt teapot being the first). However, I feel this piece marks a turning point! four sets of legs in this bowl and all of them are perfect.

two of a kind teapot

Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken... have you seen that movie? It is so good.

sparrow tea party

dead head candle stick set

bird of golden song

Practice makes perfect.

I can't help but note that this bird looks great on display with the 1800's Bavarian Tea set I got in Germany this summer.

Stacked teapot

Multiples is steady theme in my work. This ties in again to my feelings of being multiple things.

Double Horse Head teapot

check out such and such site ... They used my teapot!

Horse Butt teapot

Aside from enjoying the simple humor of working with this form, I was attracted to the difficulty of working with the thin legs of the horse. It was harder than I thought it would be and this was my third attempt that finally succeeded.

Architecture display

DAAPWORKS 2010

display for architecture students shelf design

Another china paint practice piece. This one was done entirely free hand.

bird stack

I have been working a lot with bird forms. I have always had a fondness for birds since my last name is sparrow, recently however my interest peaked when i realized that my last name may not always be sparrow. being a woman it is generally excepted that I would take my husbands last name when the time comes. This thought was scary for me and lead me to produce and continue producing multiple pieces with bird forms.

bird with ruff

This work was created to test my skills with china painting and practice gaining a more steady hand. (i used stickers for the hearts... so it looks like i am better than i am...)

identity search animals

The animals with flowers for heads reflect the most negative ditzy feelings about myself.

I have started working with combining different parts of various barnyard animals. This search for identity relates to my own feelings of being more than just a girl or just a ceramics major. I have been feeling like I am not an identifiable creature. These feelings lead me to create the Identity Search series.

large flower teapot

nesting

I do enjoy making nests. Its simple, but complex. the repetition in rolling out the coils is soothing.

a flowery practice

This is the first piece I did that really got me into sculpting roses. Since this vase, my roses have gotten much more precise and my glazing much less glob like (see I spy a wolf's eye for proof). I did this piece about a year ago in my first intro to ceramics class. I love this piece and have come a long way.

what is left of my innocence

I originally intended for this piece to be a large bowl with four deer busts on it. I had not worked with my new recipe for clay however, and it is not good with small detail, I also have not worked with such small detail as the antlers before. So, this was an exploration on many levels.

When the bowl came out of the kiln and one side had popped off, and still other parts were not as I had expected them to turn out, it was hard at first to accept the piece.

After leaving the bowl and coming back to it after a couple months, I like it again and invite the viewer to question if this piece really is ruined. I mean, sure it is unevenly sided, but the idea is still clear and most of it is still there. that is why I named it, what is left of my innocence. I wanted to address that the piece is missing parts, but most of it is still there.

poisoned with envy

green with envy

poisonous mushroom

working out some of my feelings.

I spy a wolf's eye

This bad boy is the product of wanting to get myself out of working small. Everything I make I have a personal connection to... this time I made a wolf thinking I had no connection to it or personal story behind it, but connections came as the piece grew. People would feel the need to tell me their own connections and stories about wolves. This in turn gave me my own story. I played around with this piece a lot. I liked the idea of the lion and the lamb, but I did not want it to be so cliche. So, I did my own interpretation of peace, and went with a wolf and a birds nest.