Saltwater Ceramics — Showcasing the artist Laura Irmis

New Years is approaching…

December 31, 2009

…and fast! As usual, I have been thinking about my work for 2010 and for once I have function on my brain. I want my work to be fun, comfortable and functional. Typically function is secondary with my expression always coming in first but I realized how important function was when I gave mugs to [...]

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Potters Baseball Cards?

December 17, 2009

What a great idea! I mean most of us potters don’t even know infamous potters ourselves. We work alone in our studio and reference CM or the very cool magazine Studio Potter, which has been a resource for ideas and deeper discussion among us potters for years. It is a beautifully crafted magazine with wonderful [...]

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A Perspective

December 9, 2009

I tweet, ichat, messenger, email, facebook, myspace and of course email. It gets overwhelming sometimes. Being a graphic designer as well as a ceramic artist I research a TON of articles about passionate things in my life; babies, The Bradley Method, marriage, design in general and lately my fascination about Tiki mugs and how they [...]

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Ceramics Monthly

November 30, 2009

I have been firing a lot lately at least once a week. Recently, I have been inspired to move my work into a new direction. After testing, testing and retesting I found a palette that really fits my style and mimics ocean colors. I also incorporated some mason stains and black under glaze to give [...]

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Christmas Plates

November 30, 2009

Since the holidays are right around the corner and my baby boy will be 14 months old, I am really excited for Christmas this year. I have gotten in touch with my kids side that’s for sure. With that in mind, I created some fun plates for Christmas eve, “Santa’s Cookies”. They have a diameter [...]

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Holiday Show & Sale

November 18, 2009

My work will be in the St Pete Clay Companies 14th Annual Holiday Sale on Saturday, 12/5/2009, 10am – 5pm and Sunday, 12/6/2009, Noon – 4pm If you have never visited St Pete Clay Company, you are missing out. Besides the interesting historic building with several electric kilns and atmospheric kilns the art alone is [...]

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Another Show

November 9, 2009

I just got invited to participate in the Elliott Gallery Christmas Show and Sale at Eckerd College running from November 29-December 4th. As an alumni, I am excited to show my professors my current work. Here is an image from 2004 when I displayed my Ocean Vessel body of work at the campus.

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Inspired #15

November 6, 2009

When I get inspired I usually close my eyes and visualize color, form or a shape that I want to create. Currently I am in the middle of glazing my sea creatures for the show coming up next weekend and after debating how I want to layer glazes, I reached for my iron oxide to [...]

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Etsy

October 28, 2009

Recently I sold work from my Etsy store. One of my customers is an old friend from high school whom I have kept up with on Facebook. She purchased three mugs to give as presents for the holidays. She sent in these photos and some creative ways to send these as gifts. Her fav is [...]

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