Ceramics and Pottery Arts and Resources

 

 

‘Two girls among flowers’ – Odilon Redon

 1909

 

 

Barbara Dunshee jar with curly handled lid

 

 

Elusive spring :

 

Spring has been a little bit erratic and evasive of late, hijacked by both Winter and Summer. Just thought I would add some art to fill in the lapses.

 

 

Birds ‘n’ Spring

The poem below is by the comedian Spike Milligan, who was prone to recite it at odd moments and for no particular reason.

 

Spring is Sprung

Spring is sprung, the grass is ris.
I wonders where the birdies is.
They say the birds is on the wing.
Ain’t that absurd?
I always thought the wing was on the bird.

The late Spike Milligan moved from the England to an Eastern coastal town in Australia called Woy Woy, which I thought was appropriate because he was known to look at the sky and exclaim Why Why?  The Aboriginal meaning for Woy Woy is ‘deep water’. “But which Woy means deep and which Woy means water ?”, was a question Spike liked to ask.

 

 

Spring (Again)
Michael Ryan

The birds were louder this morning,
raucous, oblivious, tweeting their teensy bird-brains out.
It scared me, until I remembered it’s Spring.
How do they know it? A stupid question.
Thank you, birdies. I had forgotten how promise feels.

 

Jasmine

spring is poppin’
bunnies are hoppin,
birdies are chirpy
felines are flirty
frogs are burpy
squirrels are gnawin
the ice is thawin’
magnolia hues intoxicating
jasmine scents un-abating
smiling muscles they’re hurtin’
coz that sunshine keeps burstin’

 

 

“Come you lost Atoms to your Centre draw,
And be the Eternal Mirror that you saw:
Rays that have wander’d into Darkness wide
Return and back into your Sun subside”

— The Conference of the Birds, Sufi Poems of Farid ud-Din Attar

 

Amazon Dreams Pitcher – Carmen de Viboral, Colombia

Antropologie

 

 

Michael Leunig

 

 

‘Vase With Snails’ by Greg Payce

1990

 

 

 

Cathy Kiffney  – ceramic wall pocket

 

 

 

Ceramic Totem – ‘The Cardinal’ – Mudgoddess, etsy

 

 

 

Lidded vessel with floral decoration – Ardmore

 

 

 

Ana Tzarev – ‘Flower Power’

75-year-old Ana Tzarev is installing a collection of sculptures of brightly coloured 15ft flowers in  seven different countries around the world. Croatian-born Tzarev claims the flowers, which when taken as a whole will become the world’s largest sculpture, and will be placed in areas where millions of people will be able to see them as they go about their daily lives.

 

 

 

Andrea Gill vase

 

 

 

‘Andromeda’ — Odilon Redon, c. 1912

 

 

 

 

Art Deco Vase by Sabino- height 14 inches

PAUL STAMATI GALLERY – 1stDibs

 

 

 

Astrid Riedel

 

 

 

‘Starlight Starbright’ painting –  Edward Maracek

1950

 

 

Carnival Paper (paper sculptures) by Carlos Meira

 

 

 

‘Yellowstone Horizon 1’ , copper, enamel, silver by Harlan W Butt

 

 

 

Loetz vase, Austria

 

 

 

Carol Gouthro

 

 

 

Charles Catteau floral vase

 

 

 

French Art Deco Signed Figural Dancing Ladies Lamp with Original Flame Shade

circa 1920-1939

Mars Palm Beach, FL

 

 

 

‘Wings Of Joy’ – Ginger Gilmore

 

 

Edouard Cazaux, La Varenne Saint Hilaire

50’s

 

 

Cypress Cutout Pedestal Vase – Bonnie Belt

 

 

Boch Frères Kéramis ceramic vase by Charles Catteau

 

 

‘Spotted Venus’ – Denise Romecki

www.deniseromecki.com/

 

Mermaid mosaic frieze — Walter Crane

Based on designs from the palace at La Zisa in Palermo, Italy.

Leighton House, Kensington

 

 

Crystal glass vase – Eugene-Rousseau and Leveillé Ernest

 

 

 

Janet De Boos vase

 

 

Nature vase – earthenware with glazes and enamels – Jenny Orchard

55 x 24 x 24cm

Beaver Galleries

 

‘Baby and Mum’ – Jenny orchard

 

 

 

Dragon Wall Clock probably made by Escalier de Cristal, Paris, bronze and enamel

Art Institute of Chicago, c. 1880

 

 

 

Irina Kotova

 

Art Nouveau vase – Emile Galle

Chrysler Museum, Norfolk (photo by JE Berger)

 

 

 

 ‘Spring In The Mountains’ – Kasia Polkowska

 

 

 

Nguyen Tuan Khanh-  ‘Eva Eternal Spring’

 

Laurie Shaman

 

 

Lorenzo Quinn

 

 

 

‘Magic Hand’  mosaic vase – Swan- Mosaics

 

 

 

Jack Earl

 

 

Marissa Motto

 

 

 

Mata Ortiz hand coiled sgraffito ola

 

 

 

Willowherb – Moorcroft Pottery vase

 

 

 

Niki de Saint Phalle sculpture – Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles

france-amerique.com

 

Katya paper mache doll

 

 

Peter Voulkos

 

 

White Heron bowl – Bonnie Belt

 

‘Heat’ – Erte

 

 

 

Nesting Great Egrets by Guy Schmickle on Flickr

 

 

 

 

Gourd Carving Art by Marilyn Sunderland

 

 

 

 

English Bristolware ceramic shoes, 1768

Bata Shoe Museum – Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Daderot – Wiki Commons

 

 

Lona Hymas-Smith

Horizon Fine Art Gallery

 

 

 

Mosaic bottle – Nancy Keating

 

 

 

Dragonfly – zdravkoni—etsy

 

 

 

Figural compote – Royal Dux

 

 

 

‘Sweet Dream Vaso’ – Roberto Giannotti

2005

 

William de Morgan vase, Fulham, England

circa 1888-1898

 

 

Vipoo Srivilasa – ‘For the Future’

 

 

 

Tall lustre vase – Wedgwood

V&A

 

 

‘Cherry Blossom Dragon’  – Linda Biggers Mixed media mosaic, eggshell, seed beads and polymer clay.

10″ daimeter

 

 

Fons Bemelman

 

 

 

‘Spring’ – William P. Welsh

1931

 

 

French Art Nouveau glass vase  – Emile Galle

 

 

 

Gumtree in pink bloom

 

 

 

‘Garden’ – C Duncan

 

 

 

‘Bring Me Joy’ – The Layabouts – Portia Monique