Green Flash Casseroles
Other Lidded Work
Porcelain Bowls
White Stoneware, Soda Fired, made in Japan
My pottery has been inspired and influenced by various clay artists I have met in my travels, including Korea and Japan, where I have been fortunate to study with master potters.
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Vicki Finkel at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Colorado, on Ceramic Scholarship Residency
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| Water, rock, cloud-dappled blue sky. |
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| Majestic peaks and valleys |
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| Colorado's impressive natural beauty is an ideal setting in which to immerse oneself in creativity. |
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| Even the bears want to be potters, as this one approached the studio. |
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| It's an honor to learn from Japanese master potter and living national treasure, Takashi Nakazato, a 13th generation potter, as he demonstrates his impressive, well-honed techniques. |
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| With only a dusting of snow on the mountains, people store their skis until winter, or |
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| find other uses for them in the off-season. |
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Learning from Tara Wilson, who is attaching a handle to her finely crafted and elegant pitcher. |
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| Delighting in first sightings of work in the just fired soda kiln. |
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| Enjoying a local farmer's market. |
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| Back at work on the potter's wheel in the studio. |
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| Nature's bounty of mountains, sun, sky, and aspen trees enrich each day, and truly inspired my work. |
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| Forms, such as these cups, echo the natural contours and undulations of the environment around me. |
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| The glaze hues, and rich soda-firing hint at the earthy tones outside the studio. |
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| Bowls ready to be fired. |
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| Tara Wilson loading her pitchers in the wood kiln. |
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| Stoking the wood fire, a three-day process. |
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| Some of Vicki's finished work. |
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| Finished cups, mirroring the rugged yet serene landscape surrounding me as I worked in Colorado. |
About Vicki Finkel Ceramics
I never dreamed of being a ceramic artist, and now I can not envision my life without making pottery.
Vicki on the potter's wheel, a bowl is born.
After working years as a freelance journalist in Africa, then as a documentary filmmaker, and becoming a psychotherapist, I was fortunate to unexpectedly discover a new passion, working with clay. Today, my travels enable me to learn from master potters around the world.
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| Vicki carving a porcelain vase in Korea. |
To express myself through clay in colors and forms that speak to people is an immense honor and gift.
Vicki experimenting with a new handbuilt form.
The potter's wheel is an ideal tool.
| Vicki "throwing" a porcelain vase on the potter's wheel. Working with clay is exciting with its limitless possibilities.  Vicki creating a teapot spout on the potter's wheel. I love to combine working on the wheel with enhancing by hand.  |
Wheel-made bowls and cups transformed by hand, drying outside a studio in Japan.
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I delight in playing with color and form to create unique functional art to be used and cherished.
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| Finished work glistening in the sun. |
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