Salt Meadow Gallery features the glazed terra cotta
pottery of Dianne Cole.
The style is simple, yet elegant, with distinctive color
contrasts or details that render each piece special
and unique.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Pottery is a form of ceramic technology, where the clay
is formed in to vessels, generally with utilitarian
purposes in mind. Aesthetic and artistic considerations
have often been part of the formation of the pottery
vessels, however modern mass production techniques have
replaced the traditional role of pottery with mechanized
reproduction, which has in turn caused the potter to
be more focused on the esthetic than the utilitarian
in industrialized nations.
The production of pottery is a process where wet clay
is shaped and allowed to dry. Next the formed clay,
or piece, is allowed to harden, and is sometimes fired
a second time to add a glaze, which hass the effect
of making the piece waterproof. Read
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