NOSTALGIC

Sitting on a shelf next to a small group of teabowls by Bill Klock is one of many physical reminders of our time in Cleveland, a small teabowl by Bill Brouillard. This ash glazed and iron accented bowl is thrown thin, light and the ash glaze helps bring the form to life and the foot is crisply tooled with a signature cartouche contained within. This teabowl was gift on a visit to his studio located a distance from where he taught alongside Judith Salomon at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Looking around at pieces like this teabowl make me a bit nostalgic for Cleveland which was a wonderful pottery town filled with a broad and diverse group of potters, there are certainly far worse places to work and perhaps few better.