Teapots are difficult to get right. They’re made with several elements: body, spout, handle, lid, and whatever else one wishes to add. It takes skill and experience to make them function properly. Regardless, I decided to hold an exhibition of nothing but teapots.
I called it, Teapot Tempest, and arranged to show it in 1999 at The Croft Gallery in Calgary.
There was a piscine influence in some of the pieces, a holdover from my Ultramarine exhibition of 1997 in Toronto. All the pieces were supposedly functional, although I didn’t brew tea in every one to test them.
teapot with 4 indents, 1999, thrown, altered stoneware, 19 cm h, speckled blue glaze, ∆10
tripod teapot, 1999, closed form, stoneware, 18 cm h, red spray on white glaze, ∆10
crawled glaze teapot, 1999, stoneware, 20 cm h, crawl glaze over base glaze, ∆10
‘cave drawings’ teapot, 1999, stoneware, tripod, 19 cm h, trailed glaze design on white, ∆10
teapot with spiral, 1999, closed form, tripod, 19 cm h, white glaze over wax resist, ∆10
cut-out doubler-walled teapot, 1999, carved stoneware, 20 cm h, rutile blue glaze, ∆10
‘snake who just ate’, teapot, 1999, stoneware, 43 cm L, decoration on base green glaze, ∆10
dinosaur teapot, 1999, stoneware, 38 cm L, green glazes, ∆10
small elephant teapot, 1999, thrown, altered stoneware, 23 cm h, multi glazes, ∆10
large elephant teapot,, 1999, thrown, altered stoneware, 26 cm h, multi glazes, ∆10
fish with big fins no feet, teapot, 1999, stoneware, 24 cm h, sprayed glazes on white, ∆10
‘fat fish’ teapot, 1999, stoneware, 21 cm h, rutile blue glaze, ∆10
‘seaweed’ teapot, 1999, carved porcelain, 25 cm h, glazes sprayed over white, ∆10
teapot with snakes, 1995, carved porcelain 30 cm h, glazes on white ∆10
red fish teapot with feet, 1999, stoneware, 26 cm h, copper red glaze, ∆10
‘snakes’ teapot, 1999, carved porcelain, 30 cm h, celadon glaze, ∆10
‘Escher fish’ teapot, 1999, carved porcelain, 31 cm h, purple glaze spray on white base, ∆10
‘floral cut out’ teapot, 1999, carved porcelain, 31 cm h, white glaze, ∆10
‘winter trees’ teapot, 1999, carved porcelain, 33 cm h, celadon glaze ∆10
