BONNIE MORGAN

Functional and Sculptural Ceramics


This month’s featured artist, Bonnie Morgan, continues her exploration of Horsehair Raku with a collection of vases and covered jars finished with glaze and Terra Sigillata. Inspired by the natural world, Bonnie aims to evoke a feeling that encourages viewers to pause and look more closely at the world around them.

After each piece is thrown on the potter’s wheel, it is sprayed with a fine clay slip called Terra Sigillata and burnished to a soft sheen. Every piece is fired three times, and its distinctive smoke patterns emerge during the post-firing process.

Terra Sigillata slips have been used by many cultures for thousands of years, including in Greek and Roman classical ware and in Pre-Columbian pottery from Central and South America.

SHARI SOUTHARD

Watercolor Paintings

Ashland Art Works is excited to present the works of self-taught, Plein Air watercolor painter Shari Southard in our gallery spaces.  Shari’s contemplative love of nature is a key element of her artistic process. Her paintings often happen as she is hiking  along the Oregon Coast, in the Cascade mountains and Colorado mountains, in the deserts of Utah and the small towns of New Mexico. A place or a sound makes her stop to smell the air, view the view or listen to the birds, the wind or the water… hear the land. The paintings become her visual journal, where she has been and what has grabbed her brush. These paintings are as if you are looking over her shoulder, seeing the world as she sees it.