These platters, plates, and dishes are made from slabs of clay that have been decorated with multiple layers of slip, mark making, and texturing. Sets of small dishes are made from one slab of clay. After the slab is decorated it is draped over a hump mold or, in the case of the platters, pressed into a plaster mold. I add feet to all of these forms.
These dishes were made from slabs of clay decorated with layers of slip. They are fired in a wood burning kiln.
2"H x 4"W x 4"D
These dishes were made from slabs of clay decorated with layers of slip. They are fired in reduction in a gas kiln.
3"H x 5'W x 5'D
These dishes were made from slabs of porcelain clay that were first decorated with slip. They were fired up side down in a wood burning kiln (notice the glaze drips on the corners of the pieces).
16.5"W x 6.5"D x 3"H
Jack Troy 437 Porcelain Clay, slips, wood fired.
This tray was accepted into the Strictly Functional Pottery National show in 2008 (Linda Arbuckle, juror).
11" wide.
B-Mix 5 Clay, multiple slips, fired to cone 6 in oxidation.
These cups are built from slabs of clay that are first decorated with layers of colored slip. Some of them are fired in a wood burning kiln and have minimal glaze on the outside. The melting ash forms a glaze on the pot creating a glossy surface. They are glazed on the inside. Some of the other cups are fired in my electric kiln in an oxidizing atmosphere and are glazed on the inside and with a clear glaze on the outside.
These cups are headed to Missouri for the MWSU Clay Guild: Twin Cups exhibit which opens February 21, 2020.
These Cups were accepted into the MWSU Clay Guild: Twin Cups Exhibit 2019. They now live in Paris with a good friend of mine.
These vary from 3" to 4" tall.
Jack Troy 437 Porcelain Clay, multiple slips, wood fired.
These bowls are made from slabs of clay much like the plates that I make in the Plates and Platters section. The hump mold that I use to create the curve in these bowls has a steeper curve to be more bowl -like. My latest experiment was to add a thin decorated slab to the rim of the pot and to make the foot out of the same decorated slab.
This bowl is built from slabs of clay that are decorated with slip. The handles and the foot are made from extruded parts. It was fired in the soda chamber of the wood kiln at Kevin Lehman's studio
Slab build bowl fired in the soda chamber of the wood kiln at Kevin Lehman’s Pottery in Lancaster, PA
5"W x 5"D x 3"H
These bowls are made from slabs of porcelain clay. The top strip was textured and then added to the base. They are fired in reduction in a gas kiln.
6"W x 6"D x 2.5"H
Zakin Clay, Multiple slips and sea oat grass pressed in, fired to cone 6 in oxidation.
This bowl has four feet.
5"W x 5"D x 2.5"H
Zakin Clay, multiple slips, fired to cone 6 in oxidation.
6"W x 6"D x 2.5"H
Zakin Clay, iron design, fired to cone 6 in oxidation.
The bottles are created from slabs of clay that are first decorated with layers of slip and textured by making marks or using material such as grasses. Then I cut out circular shapes from the slab and drape these shapes over a hump mold to create a curved surface as I would to make a plate or platter. When they have stiffened up a bit I attach two of these curved forms to create the body of the bottle. At this point the foot and the neck are added as well as any other additions such as the handles.
The slabs for the boxes are created in much the same way and some of the curved parts such as the lids and also draped over a hump mold.
The firing adds a nice blush to the wood fired work as well as a shine from the ash.
This basket was inspired by the Tony Clennell workshop I helped organize and took at Kevin Lehman’s Pottery in Lancaster, PA . It is 11”H x 11”W x 9”D. It is slab built with extruded parts with Standard’s 508 clay.
8"H x 8"W x 3"D
Slab built with slip design, fired in an electric kiln in oxidation to cone 6.
6.5"H x 5"W x 2.5"D
Slab built with porcelain clay with slip design, fired to cone 10 in a gas reduction kiln.
6.5"H x 4"W x 2"D
Built with extruded porcelain clay, slip design, fired in a wood kiln.
3'H x 3"W x 3"D
Jack Troy 437 Porcelain Clay, multiple slips, wood fired.
4.5"H x 6"W x 6"D
Jack Troy 437 Porcelain Clay, black slip in texture, glazed on inside, minimal glaze on outside, wood fired.
4.5"H x 6"W x 6"D
Jack Troy 437 Porcelain Clay, black slip in texture, glazed on the inside, wood fired.
11"H x 7"W x 4"D
Jack Troy 437 Porcelain Clay, multiple slips, wood fired.
7"H x 6"W x 2"D
Jack Troy 437 Porcelain Clay with multiple slips. Glazed on the inside.
8.5"H x 6"W x 3"D
Jack Troy 437 Porcelain Clay, multiple slips, Wood fired.
This bottle is in the 2016 Potters Council Calendar General Collection.
11.5"H x 10"W x 4.5"D
Zakin Clay, multiple slips and glazes, fired to cone 6 in oxidation.
This pot was accepted to the show PA Craft at the PA State Museum in Harrisburg, PA
7"H x 6.5"W x 7"D
Jack Troy 437 Porcelain Clay, multiple slips, glazed on the inside, minimal glaze on the outside, wood fired.
8"H x 6"W x 2.5"D
Zakin Clay, multiple slips and glazes, fired to cone 6 in oxidation.
10"D x 7"W x 4"H.
Zakin Clay, multiple slips and glazes, fired to cone 6 in oxidation.
7"H x 5"W x 3"D
119 Clay, multiple slips, glazed on inside, minimal glaze on outside, wood fired.
8"W x 6"D x 8"H
Zakin Clay, multiple slips and glazes, fired to cone 6 in oxidation.
This box was accepted in the Strictly Functional Pottery National, juror Susan Peterson, 2004.
5.5'H x 6"D x 6"W
Zakin Clay, slip in texture, fired to cone 6 in oxidation.
I create my tiles by carving into a clay slab consisting of three separate layers of clay each of a different color. This allows me to create three depths when I am working. After the carving is finished I cast a plaster mold of it. I then press clay into the plaster mold to create multiples. Although the tiles are basically the same there are variations in how they are glazed.
The inspiration for these tiles comes from things I encounter while riding my bike through the country side in Lebanon and surrounding areas.
The first tile I worked on this way is a tile I created for the Strictly Functional Pottery National held in Lancaster, PA. It was created to honor the director of this national show, Jean Lehman, who was retiring after many years.
My snow flake ornaments are inspired by images by Snowflake Bentley, an 18th century photographer who was the first to capture a snowflake and photograph it discovering that no two snowflakes are the same.
5.5"W x 3.25"D x 0.75"H
Zakin Clay, fired to cone 6 in oxidation.
3"W x 5.25"D x 0.75"H
Zakin Clay, fired to cone 6 in oxidation.
Although all the tiles are made from the same carved mold they look different due to the glazing.
Each tile is 7.5"W x 7.5"D x 0.5"H
B-Mix 5 Clay
Presenting the tile to Jean Lehman with Jack Troy (the juror for the twentieth anual show).
These snowflake ornaments are made with a stencil that I create from images from Snow Flake Bentley's collection.
I was inspired to make these to celebrate the 17 year cicadas. They are made with a stencil (like the ornaments) on top of a spattering of slip.
These rabbits are made from scraps of clay that are too nice to throw away. No two are alike!
