{"id":1955,"date":"2024-04-21T23:23:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T23:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/islandclayworks.com\/?p=1955"},"modified":"2024-04-21T23:46:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T23:46:16","slug":"stretching-beyond-the-clay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islandclayworks.com\/2024\/04\/stretching-beyond-the-clay\/","title":{"rendered":"Stretching Beyond the Clay"},"content":{"rendered":"
It’s one thing to be comfortable in your studio and gallery making pots and talking to your customers, and quite another to offer other potters a lesson in what you do.\u00a0 It can be, well, intimidating.<\/p>\n
I had an opportunity to give a workshop to the Comox Valley Potters Club recently, and it pushed me beyond that comfort zone of my own studio.\u00a0 It made me reflect on a lot of things, like why I do what I do, how I do it and what it takes to get it done.\u00a0 The Why, What and How are the backbone questions and answers for running any business, why should a pottery business be any different?\u00a0 It took a deep dive into my old computer and all the pictures stored over the past 10 or so years to see my progression, what was happening at the time that contributed to the work I was making and how I was selling the work.\u00a0 I created a power point slide show to walk through this journey so that the potters attending could get to know me and my story and thereby understanding my work just a bit better.\u00a0 For the workshop session, I collected the tools I use, the images I collect for inspiration, the surface finish techniques and my slip\/engobe and glaze recipes.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n