"Bloom"
by AnnMarie DeCollibus
Spring planted itself firmly in the creative center of our featured artist, AnnMarie DeCollibus--
and these June blooms will stick around all year!
Meet the artist at a reception on June 22nd from 5-8pm, during Fairhaven's 4th Friday Art Walk.
and these June blooms will stick around all year!
Meet the artist at a reception on June 22nd from 5-8pm, during Fairhaven's 4th Friday Art Walk.
Statement on process from AnnMarie:
"For this body of work I am using a lot of Slab Building techniques with drop molds made from wood, or foam cut drape molds. After forming the shapes, the decoration consumes the most time of the production. My drawings come from observation of my garden close by or things on and around our Fish Tender. For the red clay I use slip and stains and put down a drawing. After it has dried, I paint a layer of wax resist which blocks any water, then I cut a line thru it to put a drawing over the painting! Next I drop an oxide stain into the line. Some of the stain bubbles up on top of the wax so I have to wipe it off with a sponge and a little water. Sometimes it is very time consuming because the line is too wide to hold the oxide and I have to go back in and hand paint each little line. I love the effects of the copper, cobalt and iron into the clay. I fire these to cone 04, then paint clear over which gives it that blurred or soft effect after being fired to cone 5.
For my wheel thrown work with B-Mix Clay I bisque fire them first and then dip them in my whites base glaze. From there I do a drawing with pencil and then paint over with stains and Amaco velvets. These are harder to do because the glaze gets all powdery and I have to wash my brush constantly. This is like the Majolica process with on glaze decoration. Once these are dry I coat with wax resist and then cut the line in thru the glaze and design and put the oxide stain into it. This Mishima process or wax resist wipe off relates closely to my Intaglio Etching work I did for my BFA in Printmaking years ago. I love the layered surfaces.
I have been looking closely at flowers from my gardens and breaking down their shapes to simple abstract forms--these are starting to show up in my work. I use fancy paper cutting knives to cut the stencils. I carry a zip lock bag, paper and scissors around with me in case I have moment to sit and cut!
The Tulipieres were wheel-thrown, and the spouts, after much trial and error, were slab cut from a pattern and then molded into shape. These are a new form for me and they take hours: thrown forms stacked, then spouts, then slow dry times with a lot of fussing. I am moving in a different direction with both these and the basket forms. As a result I have some much larger drop molds waiting for my next batch of pots."
"For this body of work I am using a lot of Slab Building techniques with drop molds made from wood, or foam cut drape molds. After forming the shapes, the decoration consumes the most time of the production. My drawings come from observation of my garden close by or things on and around our Fish Tender. For the red clay I use slip and stains and put down a drawing. After it has dried, I paint a layer of wax resist which blocks any water, then I cut a line thru it to put a drawing over the painting! Next I drop an oxide stain into the line. Some of the stain bubbles up on top of the wax so I have to wipe it off with a sponge and a little water. Sometimes it is very time consuming because the line is too wide to hold the oxide and I have to go back in and hand paint each little line. I love the effects of the copper, cobalt and iron into the clay. I fire these to cone 04, then paint clear over which gives it that blurred or soft effect after being fired to cone 5.
For my wheel thrown work with B-Mix Clay I bisque fire them first and then dip them in my whites base glaze. From there I do a drawing with pencil and then paint over with stains and Amaco velvets. These are harder to do because the glaze gets all powdery and I have to wash my brush constantly. This is like the Majolica process with on glaze decoration. Once these are dry I coat with wax resist and then cut the line in thru the glaze and design and put the oxide stain into it. This Mishima process or wax resist wipe off relates closely to my Intaglio Etching work I did for my BFA in Printmaking years ago. I love the layered surfaces.
I have been looking closely at flowers from my gardens and breaking down their shapes to simple abstract forms--these are starting to show up in my work. I use fancy paper cutting knives to cut the stencils. I carry a zip lock bag, paper and scissors around with me in case I have moment to sit and cut!
The Tulipieres were wheel-thrown, and the spouts, after much trial and error, were slab cut from a pattern and then molded into shape. These are a new form for me and they take hours: thrown forms stacked, then spouts, then slow dry times with a lot of fussing. I am moving in a different direction with both these and the basket forms. As a result I have some much larger drop molds waiting for my next batch of pots."
