KTA Fellowship | Samples of Work
Beaumont Studios
Beaumont Studios is the name I’ve given to my ceramics practice (taken from my own middle name). Both the ceramic work and the photography are mine in the following samples.
My ceramics are carefully crafted to be one-of-a-kind pieces, meant to be used and make life more fun and beautiful. My background in painting and printmaking influences my choices in surface design and glazing.
Dream House Series
We all love to imagine our dream houses. In this recent series I played with that notion, abstracting the visuals onto large vases.
Ocean House, Garden House, and Mountain Trees House, are the first expressions in this on-going series. The house itself is plain and incidental; it is the location itself that brings the magic. Each vase is wheel-thrown in white stoneware, altered, and then painted and hand-carved with a sgraffito technique. Garden House has real and imagined flowers, mushrooms, ladybugs and is for the real garden lover to open their door and descend into beauty. Ocean House plays with the beauty, danger, and mystery that draw us all to the sea. Textures are woven in layers to add depth to Mountain Trees House.
I hope to bring the knowledge acquired in the Moonjar workshop (Phase 1) of my proposal to this series, working with the ambitious moonjar shape as a starting point to new Dream House vases.
Additional Work Samples
Below are examples that show my own glaze mixing, nerikomi, wheel-throwing, sgraffito, brush painting, carving, hand-building, slip-trailing, stamping, slip-casting, scultping and more. I love all of the processes, science and techniques behind the ceramic art form and am eager to learn more. Phases 2-4 of my proposal would all support this learning, as well as teaching.
Community & Teaching
I’m currently a part-time teacher at Katonah Arts Center and BKLYN Clay, and the Director of Programming for Hudson River Potters. Sharing knowledge within the community is huge for me. Exchanging ideas with other artists, collaborating and learning is something I’ve always prioritized with my photography as well as my ceramics.
What follows is some of my photography of other ceramic artists and their work, as well as some documentation of workshops I’ve set up with artists. I get a lot of joy out of documenting other artists at work. There is so much to be learned from a diversity of experience, background, and practice. This self-guided fellowship would support and enrich all of that.
Photography
I’ve been a full-time photographer for the past 18 years. It’s become so much of who I am and how I process the world that I almost forget to mention it within the scope of this grant. While this grant primarily focuses on allowing me to expand and grow as a ceramic artist, my photography would also be completely woven in (as it is even in this proposal). Feel free to click around this website to see more of my commercial work, or some samples of my School Lunch book.
