These 3 meditation bowls are pinched and formed from a single handful of clay. It is an intuitive and relaxing process of following and working with the clay to see what will happen!  The clay remains in the hand most of the time with one hand supporting and feeling while the other is working. The result is often surprising and pleasing because it is gentle and slow process where one is simply feeling one's way along. In a sense, it is a collaboration with the clay! With some meditation bowls it has become a challenge to see how thin I can make them.  For the most part, there is no set bottom and they seem to find their own way(s) to sit.

Influences come from nature. Sometimes inspiration comes from my yard and garden. Sometimes it comes from the forms of common and exotic fruits and vegetables at the farmers’ market or produce section of the grocery store. Hikes any and everywhere offer amazing natural treasures. The beach and surrounding landscape brings back memories of my childhood and the seashore along the entire East coast, especially the Carolina Beaches

I love this group of forms together…..The dimensions of the pieces in the Trio are 5 x 7.5 x 5 inches for the pea pod form, 4 x 8 x 7 inches for flowery one and 4 x 5.5 x 5 inches for the open shell form. They are made of white earthenware, white terra sigillata, glaze liner, fired 3 - 4 times, no higher than cone 04The white terra sig outer surface is shares by the 3 forms along with the iredescent pale yellow, pink, flesh of the liner glaze. These 2 shared attributes, white terra sig and the same overlaid and separately fired, irredescent glazes are what makes these pieces work together as an interesting group in spite of the fact that the forms are different. The ways they can be shown together are endless so they can be a tight group, or spread out, upside down…..etc. Each time they tell a different story….