Blue Heron with Weeping Willow handmade mug I am also offering 'Volcano:

I am also offering 'Volcano: Mount Saint Helens Bouquet Eruption' 2012

This piece was fired twice to encourage glaze run

As a species we have taken extreme lengths to alter our environments

the scraggly black leaves and stems give this pot a surrealist quality

Blue Heron with Weeping Willow handmade mug I am also offering 'Volcano:Blue herons are a special sight I love watching them stalk, moving one leg, their body seemingly still, then the other leg as they stalk through the shallows, before plunging for a fish, so quickly you thought you missed it. I've observed these here in the midwest, but also in my childhood in Ithaca NY, with it's iconic weeping willows gracing the edge of Cayuga Lake, and this is where I have imagined them for this mug. This piece was created from a