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Summer 2022 – Where I will be

Here’s hoping we can put the pandemic behind us, and gather again. In anticipation of better days ahead, I have signed up for the following venues this summer. :

Maynard farmer’s market – August 27 and September 24 (confirmed)

Acton Boxboro Farmers Market – Sept 11 and October 16 (confirmed) 

Lexington Farmer’s Market –  8/16, 9/20, 10/18  The market runs 2 – 6 pm. (confirmed)

Codman Estate Fine Arts Fair – September 10, 2022 – confirmed

Chelmsford Farmers Market – August 20 and September 17

STart on the Street – Worcester – https://www.facebook.com/stARTontheStreetFanPage/   Sept. 18 – confirmed

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Pottery lessons

Looking for one of the best ways to relax? Learn to throw on a potter’s wheel! Let me show you how!

I have been throwing for more years than I care to admit.  I have gone back and forth between eathenware and stoneware, and am currently working with stoneware clay. As a clay, it is extraordinarily forgiving, and I have found, pretty easy for even beginners to make something nice.

The attached video shows me throwing an oil lamp. I first started making these in college. The inside piece you can fill with lamp oil, and around the outside, you can make a ring of oasis and add flowers and a glass chimney. It makes a stunning table centerpiece. Because I have been working with earthenware, pretty much exclusively for the last decade, I have not been able to make one of these. The oil slowly leaks from the porous earthenware clay. In college, graduation weekend, I realized I needed cash for gas to drive home. Most likely I had drunk most of my budget with days still to go. Being ever resourceful, I took my oil lamps decorated with locally picked flowers, to a local restaurant and sold them, providing enough cash to get home. What I didn’t realize, until years later, was I had filled the rings with apple blossoms, which, when I dropped them off were gorgeous…but, apple blossoms don’t last as a picked flower. I always figured that was one of those karma things that would come back to get me.

I would love to teach you how to throw. It really is a wonderful hobby, art form…Let me work with you! https://worksfromthewoods.store/product-category/classes/

 

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Made to order

 

Someone asked whether or not I could do “made to order” pieces. I am not sure about the answer to that. It is really hard to do commissioned pieces, and takes away some of the creative spontaneity of what makes doing art fun. My mother, who has always been my most ardent supporter, has asked for several necklaces for her friends. She specifies colors, and I make the necklace. If she likes it, she gets it. In that way, commission work is worth doing. Attached is a the last necklace I created for my mother.

 

Do you have favorite colors? What colors would you like to see in a handmade lampwork glass beaded necklace?

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Welcome to my new website!

Retirement! It is about time!

After about 25 years of being in and out of the restaurant business, I hope I can finally say, “DONE!” Problem is, I have said it before…

The last time I was in the business I ran a restaurant with an art theme. Located in Littleton, MA., the place was half restaurant and half gallery. The gallery featured local artists who were establishing themselves in the art world. We had some amazing artists who did fabric art, pottery, glass, painting, photography, and metal… All so very unique and wonderful. Between managing that and the restaurant, though, it seemed like an extraordinary amount of work.

It was all complicated by my house burning down in the middle of it all, and then going through the rebuilding process.

Despite a crazy year, I am happy to report that life is great! Living tucked into the mighty oak forest of central Ma with my faithful mixed breed adopted companions, Henley a mostly rat terrier and Bubba a mostly chow, I look forward to every day I can get out into my studio. I am experimenting with new media, and hope to bring some of my new work to the store soon.

Thanks for stopping in, and please stop back again.