This colourful ceramic mosaic by local artist Peter Alting was dedicated in 1994. If you enlarge this photograph you can see how well he has crafted the ceramic pieces providing "Layers of Discovery" for the local region.

Smile on Saturday! :-) smile and show your teeth

Thank you for taken your time to visit me, comments or faves are always much appreciated!

richard cleaver www.richardcleaverartist.com/portfolio/images/mothersprin...

ceramic sculpture

de young museum

san francisco, california

HSS! added a color filter and texture filter from ipiccy

Ceramic art made by visual artist

Juul Kraijer www.juulkraijer.com/, seen at the exibition "Kiss my soul" in Dordrechts Museum www.dordrechtsmuseum.nl/english/

Thank you for taken your time to visit me, comments or faves are always much appreciated!

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“Balla the Beithir” is located a Stockinfield Junction in North Glasgow on the Forth and Clyde canal between Maryhill and Ruchill and is one of five mythical creatures in Scottish folklore and a cousin of the famous “Kelpie’s”, she is a lightning serpent who comes out during storms and if she sees you, then you have to jump into water otherwise you’ll turn into stone, hence the canal nearby for emergencies……..

Garden Conservancy Open Gardens

impressions @ street

Valldemossa, Mallorca

This fascinating sculpture can be found at the Eden Project as a permanent art installation. Created by Studio Swine this 8 metre tall ceramic sculpture represents a cyanobacterium. It blows rings of smoke which is great fun for the kids and is just weird and wonderful to behold. I tried to find a good viewpoint to show off some of the cool architecture of 'The Core' as well.

Phrenology is to psychology what alchemy is to chemistry.

My Phrenology Bust is a direct copy of the original Fowler's one from 1850. artsci.case.edu/dittrick/online-exhibits/explore-the-arti...

"Phrenology, the study of the conformation of the skull as indicative of mental faculties and traits of character, especially according to the hypotheses of Franz Joseph Gall (1758–1828), a German doctor, and such 19th-century adherents as Johann Kaspar Spurzheim (1776–1832) and George Combe (1788–1858)." www.britannica.com/topic/phrenology

Contemporary neuroscientists have discovered that certain parts of the brain do in fact control particular aspects of the mind. So the biggest mistake that Phrenology made was linking its ideas to the shape (specifically bumps) of the skull. The skull is merely the box that contains the brain, and even in the 19th century, brain function was still very poorly understood.

The worst part about Phrenology as a pseudoscience was how easily it led to racist ideas and views that people of a certain class were simply the result of the shape of their skull. A closely related pseudoscience is Physiognomy - the idea that facial features determine personality. This was developed in the 18th century by a Swiss writer Joseph Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801). Unfortunately, even today popular culture clings to this idea that higher intelligence equates to "good looks". So the better we make ourselves appear (hence all the money spent on make up) the more likely we are to succeed in life. It's an awful belief system!

www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126957-300-how-your-look...

The Fowler brothers of New York began reading heads (yes, that's the origin of that phrase, "You need your head read.") in the 1830s. They took their show on the road and made their fortune. The famous L.N. Fowler bust displayed a three dimensional "map" of the personality traits that the Fowler's believed they could discover.

Here is a great article on the whole relationship of Phrenology to Neuroscience. theconversation.com/neuroscientists-put-the-dubious-theor...

Animal, Mineral, Vegetable...

Babes in the Wood is a section of a large Peter Pan bronze statue created by Cecil Thomas in 1967, situated at Virginia Lake, in Whanganui New Zealand. It's one of two versions made by Cecil Thomas - the earlier one was commissioned in 1965, for Dunedin, as the Dunedin Botanic Gardens' first statue. Cecil Thomas (O.B.E., F.R.B.S.) was an English sculptor.

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from the series - angelus

glazed and unglazed ceramic 27 x 18 x 3cm

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ceramic, steel and wood

25x25x10 cm

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The portrait of Neesha is now finished and is awaiting firing.

Europe, Netherlands, Noord Brabant, 's Hertogenbosch, Museum of Contemporary Art Design 's-Hertogenbosch (cut from all sides)

Displayed here (BG and FG) are sculptures of Etore Sottsass totem series. In the FG are totem Menta, Odalisca en Agra (1967-1994). They are displayed at the Sottsass expo in the Museum of Contemporary Art Design 's-Hertogenbosch

This is what the museum says about these sculptures:

“Ettore Sottsass loves stacking things. He utilises this fundamentai structurai method in all his designs, but in his ceramics in particuiar, and in a manner uniquely is own. ln the traditionaiistic ceramics worid this caused quite a stir Particularily when he stuck the separate items together using glue. This characteristic design method perhaps originates from Sottsass` sickbed in PaloAlto. There he drew the series ot pills e had to take every day on a piece of cardboard. The pills, eniarged in ceramics, provide the basic shape for the many stacks he was yet to create. “

Architect, writer and designer Etore Sottsass is considered to be the inspirator of the anti-design or radical design, 'Architettura Radicale' or counterdesign movement. Opposing to modernism, the anti-design movement was founded on the belief in the importance of the social and cultural value of the object as well as its aesthetic function. The design values that were rejected by modernism were reinstated and amplified. It’s postmodern art so homage was paid to values like temporality, irony, kitsch. Highly saturated colors and scale distortions were used. All with the intention to undermine the purely functional values of an object and the views on taste and good design. It culminated in the Memphis movement in 1980. (Source: Kunstbus: here)

glazed and unglazed earthenware, aluminium and light.

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glazed and unglazed earthenware, aluminium, bamboo and light. 55x45x20 cm

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hand made porcelain doll by Tiny Shirt

Glazed and unglazed ceramic

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Jens Ferdinand Willumsen (1863-1958) - Reflection (1896). Earthenware. In the collection of the Thiel Gallery, Stockholm.

Besides being a talented painter, JFW was also an expert ceramicist. This sculpture (which I believe is a self-portrait) is from the year before he joined the staff of Bing & Grøndahl as Artistic Director, a position he held until 1900.

glazed and unglazed earthenware and stoneware 18x23x14 cm

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16" hand sculpted porcelain bjd by Tiny Shirt

Artist: David D. Gilbaugh

Series: “Reena #2”

Form: Faux oak-stump ceramic cup

Construction: hand built, cone 10 stoneware

Dimensions: 5”X 5”

white earthenware 26 x15 x12cm

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Glazed and unglazed ceramic 28x 20x 5cm

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I have been making a lot of changes/improvements on my original design. These are some of the new castings that I de-molded today. The changes are subtle, but important.

These pieces can be seen at the Swan Coach House Gallery’s LITTLE THINGS group exhibition. It runs through early January and has small artworks by over one hundred Atlanta area creative folks. Although it look a very long time, I outlined the dogs and gondola cars using Snapseed. The original background was too busy.

Barry Gregg is represented by Signature, an Atlanta craft gallery. The gallery’s net address is: www.thesignatureshop.com

Barry’s net address is: www.barrygreggclayworks.com

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Converted to a monochromatic image, these were a warming gray color. The photo colors were uneven so I made the change. See much more of Ritter’s works at his cool website: www.dennisritterclay.com

Work in progress

There was not a lot of sculpture in this group of best works, so that probably means it is an area of weakness in the art curriculum at the moment. That's a pity because there's nothing better than a fine art sculpture.

Here we see a creative ceramic piece by Samuel Goodsir of Hobart College. I'm not sure if he was influenced by Edvard Munch, but this sure has some echoes of "The Scream".

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”

― Dr. Seuss

been to lots of lovely weddings recently - this was a cake decoration on the cake of my childrens firrst Nanny who we have been friends with for the last 21 years.

PS - CARIAD IS WELSH FOR LOVE BY THE WAY.

Ya never know what you'll encounter when you go scuba diving in The Black Lagoon.

Or what you'll attract when you're wearing an orange dial wristwatch.

porcelain hands with china paint