The tableware is functional at table. You may consider it decorative instead and that’s alright too.The pottery for sale is glazed stoneware. This is the hardest and most durable form of pottery. Some of the offerings have parts that are not stoneware. Some parts are made of wire, fabric or wood.
This clay, this stone will one day be in shards. You can steward it for a time.
My Beginning
Kevin has been making art of one kind or another since 1975. Pottery is a form he embraced in2016.
My Team
Kevin gratefully acknowledges the support of South Seattle College, Pottery Northwest, Rain City Clay, and Eastcreek Arts. The mudrooms…
My Products
Each piece has a loving-kindness blessing written on it. The blessings are written twice. Once in an alphabet called Phagspa and once in abbreviated Latin script or in certificate of authenticity. In both cases the words are in English or English transliterate.
Sharon Salzberg reminds us, “loving-kindness meditation works even if you don’t feel a thing!”
TL;DNR ?
Kevin decorates his endearingly gnarled and tangled glazed stoneware in a unique and distinctivestyle. Fantastically textured surfaces beg to be touched. Each one-of-a-kind piece is suitable forthe most discriminating table.
On the other hand, some collectors value Kevin’s ware for looks alone.
Each piece begins with clay that surrenders to gravity. Kevin embosses each with geometricpatterns and, in the final stage of his creative process, blesses the work with brush calligraphy. Although the words are in English, the alphabet is an ancient one from Mongolia/China.