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

Making another TEXTURE TUESDAY happen in the studio.
Just stamping that “replacement” piece I had to make after Sunday’s ZOOM debacle!

Categories: mugs, soda-fired, stamped

Looks like we have another mug on-the-job AND at shelter-at-home!
Serving double-duty with another online meeting for Mugshot Monday!
Thanks Karen for the photo!

If you’re working double duty and need a new mug for your newly combined “home & office” workspace, remember you can now shop online here on my website. You can either click HERE… or click on the “Online Pottery Shopping” in the top right corner tab!

Categories: flowers, soda-fired, stamped, vases

Just one of the vases included in this first “installment” of my online pottery sale. Sometimes you just need to see a vase with flowers to picture its full beauty & potential. BYOL… bring your own lilacs!

Categories: bowls, stamped, textures

Four bowls. Four colors. Four textures.
All “four” another TEXTURE TUESDAY!!!

Categories: mugs, soda-fired, stamped

Taking photos. Making plans. Posting online… FULL DETAILS TOMORROW!!! But for today… it’s another Mugshot Monday just under the wire!

Categories: bowls, food, stamped

And it looks like Ruth is enjoying some fresh blueberries… in her “appropriately designed” berry bowl! What a weird coincidence… I never really thought that THAT stamp with some blue colored slip would look that great with fresh blueberries!!! Who knew?!

Categories: flowers, seasons, soda-fired, stamped, vases

A little splash of cheery sunshine & beautiful spring flowers
from one of my customers up in Wisconsin…
eager to show off her new stamped & soda-fired vase!

Categories: stamped, textures, tiles

See what happens when it rains…
I keep sharing pictures while I’m stuck at home!!!

Okay, so a lot of you have already been to my place for “My Holiday Home Show” and have seen, touched & loved my tiled wall installation. It’s a small wall between bedroom & bathroom with just under 3,000 handmade tiles on the wall…. 2,894 but who’s counting?! All stamped, textured & soda-fired. It took awhile to install, but I LOVE the final piece… especially with my hardwood accents & overhead track lighting for added drama & shadows!

Categories: pitchers, pottery, soda-fired, stamped

Okay, now that that succulent diversion is completed,
back to the task at hand. Packing up some pottery pieces to ship out today… or maybe tomorrow if I trip upon another tangent today?! No promises.

Categories: flowers, garden, pottery, soda-fired, stamped

While this happy wavy one has been replanted recently in a new stamped & soda-fired flowerpot… just finding more “diversions” from working on the REAL projects I “should be” tackling during this crazy time off!