Vianney Paul

paintings, drawings, pottery, and more

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My/your/our shot of a juicy mug for today’s #mugshotmonday and an opportunity to give a sneak peak of what came out of the kiln this weekend at @monocacyriverpottery #juicy #mug #woodfiredpottery #woodfired #pottery #clay #noborigama #shino #poterie #töpfern #defournement #unloading (at Monocacy River Pottery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CP1_3qSp7CT/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Mother’s Day sale at my house 11am-4pm this Sunday May 2nd (=a week before mama’s day) featuring some nice pitchers from my last wood firing, boxes from this winter’s kurinuki workshops, slabby creations, new cone 6 mugs and more. Like my previous “driveway sales”, pots will be spread out all over the driveway and porch to allow for social distancing etc. Needless to say you are welcome to come even if you aren’t shopping for mama - you can get yourself or somebody else a pot (that’s right), or simply come say hey. Dm for address #mamasday #mothersday #pottery #ceramics #pitcher #woodfired #cone6 #kurinuki #mywayorthedriveway (at Baltimore, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/COQu7IyJlfc/?igshid=127mw1bces7g5

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Happy Easter y’all! Delighted to share some of the results from yesterday’s kiln unload at @monocacyriverpottery with many gems and Easter eggs including this big vase which I’m quite happy with. I don’t celebrate Easter in a religious sense but it seemed fitting that yesterday was one of those Easter/Xmas experiences that so many wood-fire potters so eagerly await, when we can finally discover the individual fruits of the collective labor. It’s always exciting and rewarding to see your own work come out of the kiln, but all so much the richer of an experience to see all of my peers’ work as well, to see it evolve over time, and to see the amazing diversity of styles, all unified by this collective venture. I love unloading days. Unlike the firing, when smaller groups take shifts in stoking the kiln over 24 hours (or so), the whole group of potters is present during the unload, to share the discovery of everyone’s work, and to partake in the final cleanup which is significant.... this is a huge kiln with 3 chambers and those silicon carbon shelves can be heavy as f**k, and they all need to be moved, scraped, recoated with kiln wash, and put away. This would be definitely harder without the village. I meant to share pics and footage of the loading and firing, which I will do in reverse order, soon. Thanks to the whole crew @dugan_jim @msartbabe90 @abyspottery @gregholmesstudio @shannonbrownleepottery @cleanmuddauber @thatpotteryguy @polinamillerpottery @huntprothro @toby_rivkin_ceramics and everyone who participated. #woodfiredkiln #noborigama #woodkiln #pottery #cuisson #défournage #unloading #ceramics #datash (at Thurmont, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNQwxQhJdIQ/?igshid=1mjlzwcsocp5g

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Happy birthday dear Juliana... you would have been 32 yesterday I think and left us too soon. I wish I had called you to catch up all these times I thought of you, but so glad we got to know each other. Juliana passed away recently and I was inspired to find and frame this portrait I had done of her back in 2012, along with some others. Framing this with a light blue on dark blue within a light tan wooden frame really makes me see it in a new way, and I’m glad to have this piece of her to cherish... I wasn’t sure about posting this more personal stuff, but it felt appropriate this week. Also this induced a revisiting of other old portraits that I’ve been framing recently, so maybe I’ll share some of that sometime. Love and miss you Juliana. #portrait https://www.instagram.com/p/CMk2mMhpaDd/?igshid=a53pm8lzycoy

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Last day to join me on next weeks box making journey w/ the @pottersguild ... making boxes out of a solid block of clay is a fun way to explore possibilities with clay, shaping, texturing and carving your way through and to the object, in your mind, in your hands. All the info is on the guilds profile. #box #boite #kurinuki #clay #ceramics #carveouttimeforart (at Baltimore, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMU_HfLJ1sr/?igshid=gfd1vh0q7pxv

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Flashing slip applied to a large coiled vase for the upcoming wood firing at @monocacyriverpottery . This vase was mostly made during the 4-week course I taught with @baltimoreclayworks focusing on coiling with flattened coils and paddle and anvil, which was super fun with 9 students. I build these fairly methodically and love the contrast between that slow buildup of energy while forming and the ecstatic release while applying slip and decorating which is done very quickly. The mind is finally lost and spirit revealed. #pottery #clay #vase #handmade #handbuiltpottery #handbuiltceramics #coiling #coilbuilding #coiledpottery #slip #woodfire #greenware #poterie #töpfern #mindspirit (at Baltimore, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CL9qHDEpzy8/?igshid=yknelx2cd8iq

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Having fun cutting the rim of a large coiled bowl. Looking forward to applying flashing slip and wood firing this one! #bowl #coiling #coilbuilding #pottery #poterie #töpfern #colombin #cavachauffer #handbuiltpottery #handbuiltceramics #handmade (at Baltimore, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CL4rnW0JMT8/?igshid=zlf381vxnwj1

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Join me and @baltimoreclayworks for grounding practice starting next week with a four-week coiling course on zoom. This course specifically focuses on making pots with flattened coil and using a paddle and anvil to form the clay, a process which can become quite meditative. Bisque anvils that I threw are available for pickup at Clayworks. I love this technique for making large (for me) work but it can also be used for making small functional items. I love seeing the pieces gradually materialize and the form drawing its own silhouette as is grows, like a plant pushing upward, searching for light once its base is established. A manifestation of the mind’s work and a personal expression resulting from the hand’s interactions with the physical attributes and limitations of clay. The mouth, pinched with just my fingertips, is a bit like the flower at the end of the stem, delicate focal point of the piece, a portal between inside and outside, intrinsically receptive, holds the tension and energy of the piece and allows the gaze to brush its rim and fill the vessel with projected meaning. https://baltimoreclayworks.org/learning/ #atelier #clay #workshop #coiling #paddle #anvil #coil #colombin #vase (at Baltimore, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKE143Xp4kR/?igshid=9bji8cf2s1k0

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Some platters and bowls to show examples of some of the work that I make and fire at cone 6 oxidation, and the type of surface treatment I’ve been exploring with a different set of parameters than my usual wood fired work.... a whole different universe of possibilities. I’ll have these and more at the @pottersguild outdoor winter market tomorrow (Sunday) 11-4pm, with many talented clay buddies from the guild. #platter #bowls #ceramics #pottery #handbuiltceramics #cone6 #oxidation #clay (at Baltimore, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIuMvmMD5x_/?igshid=h31qkt2x6exr

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Another box, this one cone 6 oxidation with an imitation ash glaze from John Britt’s book. This box was shaped and textured as a solid block of clay, then the lid cut with a wire tool and both parts hollowed out, after which the legs we added. I’ll have this and others like it this Sunday 11-4 at the @pottersguild winter market, with added safety protocol, along with the guild clay fam and @sophomorecoffee and @bramblebakes ... #clay #ceramics #box #boite #ehoui #clayfam (at Baltimore, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIqfrFPjYTo/?igshid=5v2zawnasyfm

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Also excited to showcase this family of slabby planters at the @pottersguild outdoor winter market this Sunday 11am-4pm along with many of my guild friends. These are built with slabs of combined clays and have drainage holes. Cone 6 oxidation with layered oxides, wax resist and glazes. I really enjoy exploring the possibilities of patterns with the different clays and the variants of each layer... like echoes harkening back to my printmaking days. #ceramics #planter #slabbuilt #cone6 #cone6oxidation #resist #clay #echoes (at Baltimore, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIlYMeZDAAl/?igshid=1eztg2m4l2yiy

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Next Sunday is a great opportunity to interact with the @pottersguild community (and get some end of year gifts) at our Outdoor Winter Market with around a dozen members of guild members selling their wares, in the parking lot of the Meadow Mill, 11am-4pm. I’m really looking forward to this as it’s been hard this year to interact with the guild community normally... this will be all outside /w masks etc, come out and support some local makers! Also there will be coffee by @sophomorecoffee and pastries by @bramblebakes I’ll have my own table of wares including boxes and cups like these here, as well as mugs, bowls and a myriad of pinch pots #pottery #clayfam #ceramics #poterie #keramik #wintermarket #holidaysale (at Baltimore, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIj3HczjlSG/?igshid=17yrrrgi84kif

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I’m having two pottery sales this w/e! Saturday is @greatergoodsbaltimore in front of @bwillowbmo (see previous post). Sunday I am holding a holiday sale 11-4pm on my driveway, similar to the one I had in Oct, but just one day. Again I’ll have pots spread out over the whole driveway to allow for social distancing, and Marian and I will have a fire pit going. Come by and find some gifts for your loved ones (or yourself) and walk in Herring Run Park! Alternatively HMU to see my pots another time. #pottery #ceramics #clay #holidaysale (at Baltimore, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIUCybzjYwi/?igshid=ie4icvsdjsfa

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Your/my/our Monday mug photo for the #mugshotmonday tradition. This one is wood-fired stoneware, with a Tenmoku glaze in one of the two salt chambers of the @monocacyriverpottery noborigama kiln. I will have items like this one as well as other work at some sales this w/e, including the @greatergoodsbaltimore in front of @bwillowbmo this Saturday. Looking forward to selling wares alongside fellow peer-friend potters @alofthesun @lindsay_aura @stiff.clay of the @pottersguild #ceramics #mug #clay #pottery #tenmoku #noborigama #woodfiredceramics (at Baltimore, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIPJQeTDKHK/?igshid=p629qina6d8a

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Had an amazing time painting dahlias outdoors with my homie @twist33 last week at Cylburn Arboretum... definitely recommend spending time outside drawing or painting during this beautiful autumn. #painting #sketching #oilpainting #oilsketch #dahlia #art (at Baltimore, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHIjZSSj9q1/?igshid=1gxqqk397t76b

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Last chance today to sign up for my leaf platter virtual workshop next week with the @pottersguild !! It’s a 1-week workshop where we meet twice on zoom, clay and leaves included and drop off and pick up of your fired work as well! Should be a fun one.... although we won’t be using leaves quite as big 😂 Sign up by midnight on the guilds website as this weekend is pickup time for your materials. Find the link on the potters guild IG profile to see all the details and to sign up! #leaf #clay #pottery #ceramics #autumn (at Baltimore, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CG-v2LoDPM8/?igshid=4wt1k3yf05tl

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Next week I am teaching a leaf platter workshop with the @pottersguild of Baltimore... (leaf collection sampler included!) Learn about leaves while making playful ceramic objects to remember them by for use in your home, or to gift to your loved ones. All guild workshops currently include a materials kit with clay and tools, firing, interactive zoom sessions with demonstrations, and contactless pick-up and drop-off of your work. Sign up by midnight Friday night if you want to take my class next week. You can also opt to take a workshop with one of my clay heroes @anna_y2k later in November! Follow the link on the guilds IG profile to find more info and sign up! #zoomclasses #clayworkshop #leafprinting #leaf #clay #virtuallearning #platters #trays #autumnvibes🍁 (at Baltimore, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CG5uwyBj3lJ/?igshid=duu46otsd83s