metal is clay

I have a rule when I make my ceramics: I have to love how the finished piece looks on my dining room table. This was the first large piece that I glazed in my new glaze style: “Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow” - it has splashes of bright yellow and lime green glaze on top of a translucent glaze, on high-fired porcelain clay. There is also a funky mix of wood ash, black underglaze, and ash splodges: it captures a snow-bank a few days after a snow-fall - the expanse of white, splashes from the road and bikes and - y ou can fill in the rest of the inspiration. Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow. Porcelain walled and footed bowl. Pinched and hand-built form. 4.5” x 8”. Christine Pedersen. 2015. This glaze style makes me smile... It was hard to let go and take it to Bluerock , and I have a blank space in the middle of my table. Maybe I’ll be able to post a shot of it on the dining room table of its new home.

South of Calgary for half an hour, then drive due west—past the Big Rock (1) and fields of rolling prairie foothills—straight towards the Rockies… It’s a lovely drive down to Black Diamond from Calgary. My first collection of work is now on show at Bluerock Gallery —so proud to be joining the talented artists and friends already there. Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow: Orange & Red Slurpee . Pinched porcelain vase. 17.5 cm/ 7” tall. Christine Pedersen. 2015. If you’re making the trip, I strongly recommend you set-off early and call into Chinook Meadery , just west of Okotoks. Loads of lovely honey-related products, honeycomb to sample, and a live hive doing actual bee-business right there in the shop. Top tip: the honey ganache is amazing on bread and cookies, or straight off your finger whilst still sitting in their car-park. We are working our way into the case of mead we brought back, haven’t drunk them all yet so we can’t elect a champion. So far: six thumbs way up! (1...