Dianne was an artist from the time she was three years old. When I retired, she convinced me that I needed to be an artist as well. I quickly learned that producing a piece of art can be fun... but that it is also a lot of hard work.
I make things in clay through a process that is known as "hand-building". In a nutshell, that means that you don't use a potter's wheel or anything "automatic" to make a piece. It also means that it can take forever to make a piece, fire it, glaze it, and fire it again... hoping that there are disasters in the kiln.
I made this really large bowl over a period of about 3 months. I started it before we knew about Dianne's diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. She was kind enough to let me use the kitchen table for the project!
Of course, there was a long period when I could not work on it, but I decided to finish it after Dianne's going home. I think she would have liked it!
Can you find the "heart" that I included in bowl? I placed it there just as I was finishing the decorating process, just to say... "I love you Dianne!"
Beautiful!
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