Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery
A Chicago potter’s somewhat slanted view of clay & play
Categories: bowls, food, stamped

Looks like a “Sunday-Sundae-Funday” for Rosene!!!

Categories: bowls, stamped, surface decoration

A little stamping fun inside this bowl. I’m totally diggin’ the cool pattern it created as I stamped it one-by-one-by-one into these cool pointed chevron patterns!

Categories: bowls, color, food, friends, stamped

Looks like Sarah has been tossing a yummy salad in her stamped bowl. Beautiful & healthy all at the same time!

Categories: bowls, collaborations, food

Looks like my cousin Kimberley has had a bumper crop of fresh strawberries from her garden this year! They look amazing in her homemade strawberry shortcake… and her pottery collection. Including a berry bowl collaboration I did with Cory McCrory a couple years ago for ART IN THE GARDEN. Can’t wait to see what kind of a collaboration Cory & I pull together this year!

Categories: art fair, bowls

A very special THANK YOU to everyone who came out this weekend for the Hinsdale Fine Arts Festival. We had fantastic weather for both days… albeit a bit warm on Saturday?! It was so much fun to see my “pottery peeps” in the park supporting local artists. We all appreciate your support & encouragement.

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: bowls, glaze

Spent the afternoon prepping, pricing & packing… getting ready for the Schaumburg Prairie Arts Festival this weekend. Sort of enamored with this collection of colors & textures… you know how I love a “not-so-basic” bowl!!!

Categories: bowls, glaze, process, production

All lined up… ready for a quick layer of wax resist on the footrings… then some quick glazing before teaching class tonight. I’d love to get them in the kiln soon… as this coming weekend is the Schaumburg Prairie Arts Festival!!! And I’d really like to have some of these berry bowls ready for this weekend!!! Fingers crossed…

Categories: bowls, food

Some microgreens in a micro-bowl…. thanks to Kristy’s lunch!

Categories: bowls, classes, production

While I might “allegedly” be in Minneapolis already to play & shop at this weekend’s St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour… I wouldn’t want my SURFACE DECORATION class to miss me too much tonight. So I’ve set them up with my favorite sub, and her best demo ever!!! And I even pre-made some pieces for them to “play with” in class! Can’t wait to see what Catherine does with them as they tackle “water etching” tonight! Sadly, without me…