So Cal pottery scene
The ceramic art world was booming in Southern California in the 1970’s.  One of the centers of this was at Scripps College in Claremont around Paul Soldner one of the most prominent American potters.The  studio at Scripps was open day and night and filled day and night with ardent students.  The big names in clay passed through regularly including a small older woman in a black flowing dress who walked through the studio emanating something special.  I had no idea until someone whispered “Georgia Okeefe”.  That environment was very inspiring to the creative process.  For a few years I lived and breathed art and not much else.  In 5 years I was so involved with art making  I never made the hour trip to the beach.
Stoneware Bowl   18" wide x 12" tall 
Finished product from the process pictures
Gallery show, Pitzer College
Three bats with fiber wrap. 8" x 9'
Handbuilt with sewer pipe clay 
Two large bats with protest. 10" x 11' tall. Hand built with sewer pipe clay. With friendly protest that my work was phallocentric.
Salt Fired
16" salt fired forms. Salt firing is a historic process which creates and interesting pebbly clear glaze. Unfortunately it is not environmentally friendly and doesn't exists any more. These are among a few of my work that I consider original 



​Ceramic Sculpture  48”
To make large pieces we would throw sections and assemble them or throw the first 16”, leave it on the wheel and hand build more each day.  This piece was thrown in six pieces and assembled.
Ceramic Sculpture  50”
Hand built over 7 days.
Previous piece in progress.   
Sculpture 30”
Thrown pieces reformed, assembled, painted
Sculpture 34”
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Spike pot 24”
Tall stoneware 18”
Traditional salt fired jug  12”
​Peter on the Cross  24x12
Peter Wormser was a very good artist and became a very good architect.  I used a cast of his face in several pieces.  Sadly, he recently died.
Peter
Cast face on slab.
Plane Face 10”x14”
A low fire electric kiln experiment.
Raku pot  10”
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Raku platter  14”
My teacher Paul Soldner was most famous for his Raku.  The whole Japanese art tradition had influence on what we made.  I spent time making my own glaze brushes from road kills, but only dabbled in Raku.
​Stoneware lidded vase   11”
Very traditional and one of my better pieces
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Small bowl 6”x4”
The Japanese aesthetic was about working toward perfection that can’t be reached.  I threw hundreds of this traditional footed bowl form.  This was my best even though the glaze is not traditional.
Small bowls  6”x4”
More attempts at a very particular form.