This is the French Broad River right behind Highwater Clay in Asheville.
And here's my friend Abby (green coat) looking away from us at the beautiful pottery. We couldn't have asked for a nicer day!
Here's a friendly stranger smiling at me as I took a picture of the quaint town of Dillsboro. We have to go back and look at it when it's not in the midst of a festival some day.
This tray was an example of some of the things that inspired us. Abby was entranced by it.
We did go inside one pottery shop, where several potter's works were represented. We were both taken by a few cats done by a potter from GA, named Boyd. There were a lot of pots with leaf impressions on them also.
Here Joe Frank (can't remember his last name, but he had 2 first names) demonstrates alcohol reduction by the fumes from the alcohol he's spraying upon a pot right out of the kiln. He would spray until the copper color appeared, then put it under a pyrex bowl on a sand table for a certain amount of time...and
later it came out looking like this. Pretty magical, no?
These raku pots demonstrate the technique of using horse hair in the final smoking of them...it leaves a great imprint.
