kiln success!

It was a very rainy 60 hour firing, but the kiln did wonderful! We open on Wednesday the 3oth and I can hardly wait to see all 250 new pieces...

Happenings & Openings

November 16- 23rd, the Kiln Firing

Saturday November 26, Main Street Gallery (St.Clairsville,O.) Grand Opening

Saturday December 3, Black Sheep Vineyard (Adena, O.) Paintings & Pottery show

Next firing coming up!

We will be loading the kiln in a short time, starting the 16th. Warm up 19 and 2oth. Fire 21 through 23rd- long days are ahead! I have made more clay work than I ever have before. Experimenting with lots of throwing and then altering into a small sculpture. So, we shall see what the kiln has to say about that!

Contemporary Fairytales of the Ohio Valley

This is a short series i did in homage of Arthur Rackham, my favorite illustration artist. Wonderland and Jack Frost are 24"x30" and Red Riding Hood is 24"x36". I'm always wondering about home and a sense of dis-connection.

The kiln!

HarvestFest

I will have a small booth with paintings and pottery for sale this Saturday the 17th at Ferda's Garden Center's Harvest Fest! It's always a relaxing, and fun fall festival!

Beach Series

Hand thrown, pit fire work with shells from Florida (I was there just a week ago!) For sale on Saturday at the Wheeling Arts Fest.

Wheeling Arts Fest!

I will have some new pit-fired work and prints for sale at the 1st annual Wheeling Arts Fest on Saturday, August 2oth. Lots of music, art and literary events taking place- should be a positive event for the area!
wheelingartsfest.com

coming soon!

not only do i paint, but i have been working with wood-fired pottery for about 11 years now. usually i focus on sculpture, but i have begun to also throw on the wheel. i am organizing all of my clay work and will soon have images posted.

I have an Etsy account!

I have just added 3 new prints to my Zwinterwalker Etsy account. Click on the link below to go there! Thanks.

Cosmic Dinner

Glad to know my friends Andrew and Patricia won my "Cosmic Dinner" during the raffle to raise money for art in Wheeling!

Multumesc!Romania

Borsec Residency 2011
Throwing open every door and window in your home during a tempest storm could not be enough to describe my month in Romania. I can only hope to return what has been given to me through the work I will now begin to pursue.







I will return.

Its morel season!

This is a wood-fired piece that was fired in the Phoenix fast-fire in Pittsburgh (Center for the Arts)

More images...of the ocean

I love the ocean, and soon I will be flying over it! I leave in 11 days for Europe!

Successful fire!

WE had our first fire at the Ramsey Anagama. Loaded on Sunday, we fired for 36 hours straight! Sunday we will unload and hopefully have some new beautiful pottery....

I'm going to Romania!

The opportunity to travel has finally worked out for me! I was accepted for the Transylvanian Art Residency this May! My excitement (and anxiety) can hardly be contained!

A print from a social work trip to the Navajo Reservation- taped to the window of an old house in winter

The way one works

I like quality from the inside out. In order to have a healthy body, one should only eat the best foods full of quality nutrition. I make paintings in a similar fashion. I have no interest in simply purchasing pre-made supplies for the sake of convenience. That would be like eating potato chips or a boxed meal- someone else is telling you it is good, but is it? I prefer to buy large birch or oak panels (1/4") and cut them down to size myself. A number of years ago I had read up on how to make your own gesso, and knew I did not want to be using pre-made (plastic) gesso. I want to know what is in my materials! What is going into my painting is what makes it quality! So, I take the time to melt down rabbit skin glue and add calcium carbonate to it. I have to soak the glue overnight and it usually takes the entire next day to put it on my panels. This gesso is a real process, but i enjoy this. I have also been attempting to make my own paints. I mix some pigments and have recently been attempting to make egg temperas. This is the way I want to make my work, with a real PROCESS involved. It is certainly not just about the finished product. Being an artist is having my whole life a part of the creation.....

The mis-leading path (Acadia National Park)

oil on panel

24"x30"