Fog freezes onto whatever it touches. This is what that looks like in stoneware.
This planter was wheel-thrown in my Portland studio from Pioneer Dark — a strong, iron-rich stoneware without the speckle, so the surface stays quiet and lets the glaze do all the talking. It’s finished in Cerulean Satin by Coyote Clay as the base, with Nimbus — a Mayco stoneware glaze — layered over hand-carved vertical bands of texture. Where the glaze crawls over that dense banding, it blooms into something that looks like rime ice — that feathery white frost that builds when fog freezes directly onto a cold surface. Blush and periwinkle push through the white, deep teal-blue holds everything together underneath.
This is the first of what I’m calling Rime Field — Cerulean and Nimbus, always this same conversation between the two glazes, but landing differently depending on the carving underneath. This one gets its name from the banded, almost windswept texture the glaze moves across.
The interior is fully glazed in that same deep teal — a color that only reveals itself when you look straight down into the piece. At 5.5” wide and 4” tall, this is a generous size, with enough presence to hold a substantial plant or stand on its own as a sculptural object. No drainage holes — designed for a grow pot nestled inside.
Meet its cousin, Rime Dot — same two glazes, a different carving, a different frost pattern entirely.
One of a kind. Rime forms differently every time — this particular field of frost exists only once.
Fog freezes onto whatever it touches. This is what that looks like in stoneware.
This planter was wheel-thrown in my Portland studio from Pioneer Dark — a strong, iron-rich stoneware without the speckle, so the surface stays quiet and lets the glaze do all the talking. It’s finished in Cerulean Satin by Coyote Clay as the base, with Nimbus — a Mayco stoneware glaze — layered over hand-carved vertical bands of texture. Where the glaze crawls over that dense banding, it blooms into something that looks like rime ice — that feathery white frost that builds when fog freezes directly onto a cold surface. Blush and periwinkle push through the white, deep teal-blue holds everything together underneath.
This is the first of what I’m calling Rime Field — Cerulean and Nimbus, always this same conversation between the two glazes, but landing differently depending on the carving underneath. This one gets its name from the banded, almost windswept texture the glaze moves across.
The interior is fully glazed in that same deep teal — a color that only reveals itself when you look straight down into the piece. At 5.5” wide and 4” tall, this is a generous size, with enough presence to hold a substantial plant or stand on its own as a sculptural object. No drainage holes — designed for a grow pot nestled inside.
Meet its cousin, Rime Dot — same two glazes, a different carving, a different frost pattern entirely.
One of a kind. Rime forms differently every time — this particular field of frost exists only once.
