JUST THROWN

Straight forward terra cotta teapot decorated in abstrakt resist with a deep black and vivid coloration surrounding the surface leaving the handle, gallery, lid and base to frame the pot. I like making simple teapots, just the body of the piece, a lid, a spout and a pulled medieval style round handle assembled without much fuss to give you a rather easy to use, practical pot. Though I do drink tea it really was my time working around Bill Klock that cemented my interest in teapots as while working he would stop and make tea the English way which always, always included a handmade teapot by him, students or other potters he knew. If that wasn't quite enough there were the classic teapots that Warren MacKenzie made and the sleek thrown and altered ones by Jeff Oestriech that gave me at the very least a foundation from which to work. It may be these particular times but though I have made all kinds of teapots from hardly functional, thrown and altered and hand built moving in to a new cycle of just plain thrown and assembled teapots can really satisfy the soul.