Ceramics and Pottery Arts and Resources

 

Vision of a rabbit lake surrounded by a rich ochre terrain from an elevation of 3km

NT,  Australia

 

 

Rabbit blue lake in middle of OZ

 

Despite being the Year of the Rabbit, bunnies weren’t really on my radar, having already done a feature post on the refined rabbit. Recently, while indulging in an arial landscape foray for gong shi exploration, I had a chance sighting of an intruiging rabbit lake in the centre of Australia. It was in an auspicious location due to its proximity to Mount Wedge and Pupanya (origin of Indiginous Aussie Art from bark to canvas). This acted as a visual catalyst that motivated me to take a closer look into the Rabbit Year 

As this year is associated with the Water Rabbit, which only comes every 60 years, the last time this happened was in 1963, right on the cusp of an era of  cultural and artistic revolution.The Water Rabbit arouses artistic fluidity, creative virility, feminine flexibility, moderation, balance and moving with the flow. 

At this time the Beach Boys were launching their  breezy Surf Music mania and wave motion imagery was becoming very popular. Even ocean symbolic, shark fin designs were appearing as a frequent feature on most cars cruising around in the sixties. The bold sea sail architectural statement of the Sydney Opera House was also opened in 1963.

Miro, Jackson Pollock, Guido Gambone, Robert Crumb and numerous artists had introduced a freewheeling flow and spirit in their works, emboldened by a carefree abandon. So many shackles were suddenly shed, releasing an irrestistable spirit of freedom which kept expanding along with the far reaching musical innovation and genre fusion unleashed from Coltrane, Hendrix, The Beatles, Miles Davis and countless others in this artistically fertile decade.

 

 

Vivid light festival projected onto sails of Sydney Opera House

 

The currently unique combination of the Water Rabbit, the emergence of Neptune and the beginning of a new Jupiter Grand Transit (2020) is a potent mix for spiritual illumination. I’m now anticipating a new phase of cultural expansion and creativity becoming imminent. I don’t beleive we can assimilate another ride as wild as the last time but I feel there will be a more nurturing component of rejuvination, creative healing, sustanence and preservation. 

Enjoy this collection inspired by rabbits, feminifience, calming beauty, ochre orange, trippy blue palletes, ethereal spontaneous flow and good fortune.

 

 

Wavy hair, flowing dresses, Boho Chic, all in the essemce of the peace loving Water Bunny

 

 

Vintage drip glaze vessel from Vallauris

 

 

Tchalenko floral bowl

 

 

 Kelly Daniels ceramic cups

 

 

Jose de Rivera vintage sculpture

 

 

Alfajar Ceramica Pequeno Formato Alcuza — Small Flask

 

 

Flamboyant vintage orange and white striped vase

 

 

Rabbit and Chrysanthemum Flower Suiseki/GongShi stone

 

 

Art Nouveau fluttering butterfly vase — Stephanie Young

 

 

Annie Thomas Burke — mosaic panel

 

 

SpanishAlfajar  — expressive female face vessels

 

 

Agnes Weinrich  —  ‘Woman With Flowers’

1920

 

 

Anelise Bredow vintage inspired vases

 

 

Afrofuturism Collages of Kaylan

 

 

Danseuse de flamenco — Isabelle Tuchband

Brasil

 

 

St Albans Pottery, UK

 

 

Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri — ‘Honey Art Dreaming’

1987

Clifford Possum was an artist of early dot painting activity at Pupunya. His Honey Art Dreaming was featured on the Australian Five Dollar Silver coin.

 

 

Vase Sirene — Jean Derval

1960

 

 

An interpretation of indigenous dot painting by French artist Melissa Gougeon

 

 

Bob Illes —  female sculpture

 

 

 

Sue Tirrell Black Rabbit Star Plate — ‘A bunny Ba Qua’

2019

 

‘Portal to another time and place’ —  Deborah Halpern

 

 

 

5 hand painted nesting doll birds created by Aussie Indigenous artist Leah Brown

 

 

 

Isabelle Tuchband

 

 

Banksia Coccinea flowering in Stirling Range National Park

photo Terry Dunham

 

 

Flowers of Edo Young Womans Narrative Chanting to the Shamisen

 

 

Monty Don’s ‘Gardens of Venice’

 

M.Montedoro Art Deco postcard

1920’s

 

 

Irina Charmy – ‘Pony’

 

 

Lake Titicaca, Puma chasing a Rabbit — The Sacred Lake of the Incas

 

Natasha Dikareva— Third Eye Poodle

 

 

Compressed Spiny Oyster and Mojave Turquoise— Medicine Bear Zuni Fetish

 

 

Eastern Grey Kangaroo in habitat

 

 

Carolyn Genders

 

 

 

Georges Braque — ‘Little Harbor in Normandy’

1909

 

 

Alexander Archipenko — ‘Arabian’

1936

 

 

Sea Dragon

 

 

‘Serpent Rising’ —  Alexander Calamei

 

— “This dot art piece was inspired during the time of 12/12 /2020 as it was a pinnacle time due to  many stars aligning in our solar system and the dormant energy of the serpent under Uluru rising again. Mother earth is changing and she is waking up in many areas on the planet and Uluru. The centre is the Emotional Chakra of the Earth, waking the dormant serpent to assist with clearing trauma within the consciousness for healing humanity.” — Alexander Calamei

 

 

Rising serpent ariel landscape capture

Northern NT

 

 

IaRex lAtelier International Artists Residency Exchange

France

 

 

Waylande Gregory — ‘Europa and the Bull’

ca. 1934. Earthenware

 

 

Christine Brallier — mosaic blue cat

2023 is also Year Of Cat

 

 Lynn Smier Bowers

 

 

‘Kangpigeon’ earthenware with glazes and enamels – Jenny Orchard

Delinquent Children exhibition

 

 

‘Dragon and Waves’ 1827

The Yang Dragon is also a polarisation of the Yin Rabbit and their luck. The Water Rabbit is the luckiest sign in the Chinese zodiac calender.

 Smithsonian

 

 

Erte — ‘Wings of Victory’

1978

 

 

‘Women Knowledge Gatherers’  — Alexander Calamei

 

 

 Yowna Gwion – Kimberley rock art

13000BC

 

Hellenistic terracotta vase — Centuripe, Sicily

 

 

My visiting Huntsman spider promoting the amber vibe

 

 

Kumakura Junkischi

 

 

Laura Bird  — running naked green woman vessel

 

 

Magical iconic Australian grass tree attracts fairies according to folklore.

 

 

 

Painted Plate Dudley Vaccianna

 

 

Buste Feminin en papier mache – dédé

 

 

Centrotevola in terraccotta Jean Cocteau

 

 

Italian Pottery- Bowl  —  Fratelli Fanciullacci

 

 

 

Mata Ortiz Pottery Sgraffito Olla — Lazaro Ozuna Silveira

 

 

Chinese Handmade Ceramic Red Blue White Dimensional Dragon Vase

 

 

Corinna Maguire – lucky octopus cake

Eight legged creatures like the octopus and the spider (and their web) are worthy of contemplation  because they can guide you beyond entrapement from your deep past. The intricate webs and tentacles being symbolic of the entanglement that can bind us. That’s why traditionally they are known to free emotional and creative blocks. As a new era of inner freedom is now emerging, its a great time for some serious release.

 

 

Porcelain Koi  relief teapot — China Qing Zeit 1644–1911

Dresden Zwinger museum

 

Edward C. Curtis photo

1905

 

 

Alfajar –nude figure flask

 

 

Barocco — Richard Tarone And Jacques Massard — ‘Europa, Pan And Dionysis’

1995

 

French Art Deco Colonial Vase

 

 

Imiso ceramics Africasso vessel

 

 

Jean Arp sculpture

 

 

Joely Clinkard —  Small Red Spring Stroll Vessel

 

 

Rene Buthaud large plate

 

 

Michael Kay circus riders

 

 

 

Reaching Out  — recent image from the James Webb Telescope

 

 

Rabbit Island, Valsanzibio garden, Italy

During the Venice plague of the 1630’s, Giovani  Barbarigo made a vow to the Divine that if his family survived, he would create a grand garden at Valsanzibio.

Monty Don

 

 

 

Large cobalt ground Satsuma vase

 

 

 

MaPo Kinnord  — ‘Cosmic key’

 

 

Ren Buthaud French Art Deco ceramic vase with nude figures

 

 

Richard Erdman

 

 

Sophie MacCarthy

 

 

Cruising whale rider

 

 

Maureen Minchin jug

 

Longwy Figural Ceramic Vase, Longwy France

Circa 1930

 

 

Les Namingha pottery

 

Moon gazing hare

 

 

Palais Bulles, France

 

 

 

Rudy Autio

 

Lively, large blue dragon teapot

 

 

French Art Nouveau vase with floral relief

 

 

Ryuichi Kakurezakis sake bottle

6 in. 15 cm in height – stoneware. 2015

photo George Bouret

 

 

Mykonos inventive pottery display wall

 

 

Stephanie Young – ceramic vessels set

 

 

 Lucien Koonces — Tokkuri — 5½ in. 14 cm in height, stoneware 2015

photo George Boure

 

 

Rebecca Zweibel  ceramic ‘Boat’

 

 

Steve Bicknell abstract dancers sculpture

 

 

Satsuma Plate with three dragons in low relief

Japan

 

 

Everest base camp

 

 

Herbie Hancock and his Shelby Cobra

( built in Venice California. USA)

 

The bunny luck was working for Herbie in 1963 (Rabbit Year) when he acquired this Cobra car on a whim in NY for $6000, with money from his paycheck from his huge hit ‘Watermelon Man’. He had also just recorded a song called King Cobra, which he described as an attempt to “expand the flow [of jazz tunes and chords] so that it would go in directions beyond the usual” This was the beginning of  his expanding journey into fusion music that also included building the Funk genre in the 70’s. He still owns the Cobra, currently worth 2 $million.

 

 

The Beach Boys with Ray Charles — ‘Sail On, Sailor’

Masters of Harmony meeting the Master of Soul, 25th Beach Boys Anniversary Tour, 1987

 

 

 

‘Free’ – Prince, Larry Graham, Chaka Khan, Graham Central Station

 

 

Boom Crash Opera — ‘The Best Thing’

 

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