Rowan on the tire swing.

Rowan

Can't stop that girl from singing!

Evening Fishing at the Dam

Ian casting a few at sunset at the F. Walter Dam.
A beautifully relaxing time on the water.

Pottery in the Garden!

EC/DC Online..

Our show at Marquis was featured in the Electric City and Diamond City regional entertainment guides. That's one of my porcelain Celtic bowls!

The city of Scranton is known as "The Electric City" because it was the first city in the nation to introduce electric trolley cars. Wilkes-Barre is called "The Diamond City" in reference to the the city's coal mining heritage. Coal often being referred to as black diamond.

The EC/DC guides are published weekly and keep us up to speed on what happening in arts and entertainment in the Woming Valley.

ArtWalk

Thanks to the dozens who ventured out on a bitter cold evening to attend the Third Friday Artist's Reception at Marquis Art and Frame. The overnight temperature fell to as low as 15 degrees below zero here in NEPA, but that didn't keep us from enjoying a night out.
I sold a number of pieces and was glad to see one happy gallery guest head home with her newly purchased stoneware incense urn. (Enjoy your Nag Champa, keep warm and hope to see you at the next "Wild Women, Wine and Wheels Night!" )
Even some impromptu art was created in the form of a "Portrait of a Carrot" (Thanks to my daughter Rowan.) and some "Calamari Art'' courtesy of Bear Creek's one and only modern day legendary folk hero.
Thanks again to everyone who attended!

Bear Creek Pottery will be exhibiting in a group show at Marquis Art and Frame...

The opening reception will be on January 16th (5-8pm) and is part of the Third Friday ArtWalk. Joining me will be painter/photographer Kim Hughes and abstract painter

Ed Kastreva.
If you're in the area please join us and bring a friend for art, wine, food, music and fun....and if you don't want to walk you can always take the antique trolley to visit all the venues on the ArtWalk!

MARQUIS Art and Frame
122 South Main Street
Wilkes-Barre PA
570-823-0518
Exhibit Continues Through February 28, 2009
Gallery Hours Monday - Saturday 11:00-5:00pm

Custom Christmas Order

We woke up Tuesday morning to a winter wonderland !
A bit early for snow like this, though it was amazingly beautiful.
The kids had the day off and they even went Trick-or-Treating through the snow.

A view out my studio window. The leaves were at their peak on Columbus Day weekend. Spectacular!

One of my cups has been featured in a Treasury by DakotasStall!

Pearlspot's "In the cool of autumn...before the crispness of winter." Etsy Treasury is a beautiful collection of fall colors and textures that brings to mind the changes of the season.

Included is one of my stoneware nutmeg mugs...

Porcelain bowls ready for glazing.

It's quickly becoming" don't forget your sweatshirt" weather here in Northeast PA. While the days are still pleasantly warm, the nights are starting to cool down. Changes are happening in the woods as well...

Bear Creek Pottery has been selected as a featured Etsy Seller on Karen Faulkner's site http://karenfaulknerart.blogspot.com/.

Karen is a watercolor artist from Pennsylvania whose paintings include intimate vignettes of flowers that are bursting with color. She's able to capture their true essense with fluid brush strokes and brilliant hues. Her work can be seen at http://www.karenfaulknerart.etsy.com/

You may be familiar with my collection of "Mini-Mugs". They're cute little mugs made from just a half pound of clay that are the perfect size for that small cup of coffee or petite serving of wine.

A recent order from a customer in England had me throwing a series of larger mugs. These sixteen-ouncers are stacked in the kiln and are ready to be bisque fired tomorrow.

I guess I'll have to call these my "Mega-Mugs" !

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