Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery
A Chicago potter’s somewhat slanted view of clay & play
Categories: art fair

Just arrived in Hinsdale… and it looks like the start of a beautiful day!!! Time to start unloading my car & setting up my booth. I’ve got a couple hours to get everything ready as we open at 10:00am. Be sure to come by Booth 69 to say hello today or tomorrow!!!

Categories: art fair, platters

This weekend… the Hinsdale Fine Arts Festival in downtown Hinsdale in Burlington Park. I will be filling my booth with lots of handmade pottery… mugs, bowls, vases, flower pots, ikebana vases & so much more! Hoping for good weather & lots of fun people to chat with tomorrow & Sunday. C’mon by…

Categories: art fair

Another weekend, another art fair! This coming weekend will be the Hinsdale Fine Arts Show in Burlington Park. I’m excited to be headed out to the park & back to my usual booth space #69. Hoping you can stop by to say hello & maybe even give some handmade pots a good home!

Categories: art fair

A huge THANK YOU to every one who came out this weekend to the Schaumburg Prairie Arts Festival. It was a great kick-off for my summer art fair season. We had incredible weather… and it was so much fun to see everyone coming out to enjoy some art & time in the sun! If you missed out… be sure to stop by one of my upcoming art fairs! Like the Hinsdale Fine Arts Festival next weekend!

Categories: art fair

All ready for Day Two of the SCHAUMBURG PRAIRIE ARTS FESTIVAL. Shelves have been restocked, the weather is still perfect, the sky is still blue… and the fountain is still running! C’mon by Booth 17 until 5:00pm!

Categories: art fair, bowls, food

Always fun to see where your pottery goes… I suggested ice cream
but Johnna apparently had other ideas!

From Johnna… “Instead of eating salad out of my new favorite bowl tonight, I made the best looking guacamole! I’ve looked at your work for a few years at the Schaumburg art fair and so glad I finally pulled the trigger today. Thank you!”

Categories: art fair

What a WONDERFUL day in the park today! We celebrated Day One of the Schaumburg Prairie Arts Festival with PERFECT weather!!! Blue skies, warm sun & cool breezes… perfection. And sure, a scenic pond with a fountain & swans doesn’t hurt either! Looking forward to another great day tomorrow… similar forecast… fingers still crossed though! I’ll be there in my usual Booth #17 from 10:00am-5:00pm… be sure to stop on by!!!

Categories: art fair, lidded jars, pottery

With a long weekend & great weather ahead of us, it looks like the “perfect” weekend to kick-off my summer art fair season! This Saturday & Sunday from 10:00am-5:00pm in Schaumburg… same booth space as always! Hope you can swing by!!!

Categories: art fair, flowers, garden, pottery

For anyone who might be in the Central Illinois area this weekend… a quick POP-UP SALE near Peoria! I will bringing some pottery down to share with my “first art fair friends ever” as they host their Annual Plant Sale! Their gardens are AMAZING… and they have been splitting, dividing, propagating & germinating just to have LOTS of plants to sell. Lots of homegrown perennials, annuals, succulents, garden accents… and some of my POTTERY too!!! If you’re in the area, be sure to swing by!!!

2314 Skyway Road, Bartonville, Illinois 61607… 9:00am-4:00pm…
right by the Peoria International Airport!

Categories: art fair, artists

Not a lot of finished artworks at the Shepherds Festival… more supplies for the crafters. But we did kinda like these little wall hangings… I assume they must be woven, felted, stitched, beaded and who knows what else? All affixed to a piece of weathered barn board… which I’m always into!!!