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My Ceramics

In the studio I like to do	Everything to do with Ceramics
Pottery Wheel	Brent C
Clay body	Stoneware, Porcelain
Clay Brand	Laguna Electric Brown, B-Mix, KY Mudworts Iceman, Frost
Kiln Type	Electric Kiln, Raku Kiln
Kiln Atmosphere	Oxidation Atmosphere
Temperature	6 but I can fire to cone 10
Glaze	I usually like Marco and Amaco but recently I am working on my own. Also excited to make my own underglaze.
You can buy my work from	I am not selling yet but if you are a friend I will share. I just have limited time and my pieces become precious to me at some point.

About Me

Introduction	Hello I am Jeanette Porter from Aurora Colorado where for many years I have owned a ceramic studio. Many years teaching and the same amount learning. Always looking for what interests me most and what is next. Currently watched the best class here on making Ribs at home!! I plan to add these tools to my studio.
What I Love about Ceramics	Ceramics to me is perfect alchemy. You use the four main elements (earth, air, Fire and Water) and then impart a piece of yourself in everything you make. I have made many things in the past starting at 15 with traditional ceramics and glazing. Moved to making dolls and opening a 5K square foot teaching studio to now my own personal studio where I can just get lost myself in the clay. I love that it is equal parts science and imagination.
How I started with ceramics	I wanted to make gifts for family. I watched this commercial on tv for salsa and then watched a neighbor make their own home made. It had never occurred to me at the young age of 15 you could do this stuff yourself. It became an obsession in life to find something that pulled my interest and then learn it backwards and forward, inside and out. Now clay is like an extension of me.
What inspires me	I love natural things and designs. I live to give my pottery an earthy look. A tumbler shaped more like a vessel of old or a tea bowl with a lovely foot. It all pulls me in. I also love talented people and learning what they know and share. I am inspired by Matthew Kelly a production potter as well as Florian Gadsby. Both very talented people.
What I'm working on at the moment	Right now I am moving my studio. We are finishing the space and making it ready. I have been working in my sunroom which is fine but it is too cold to stay in this time of the year. I want a permanent place I can go to all the time.
My Artist Statement	https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100086341972189 Is a link to Behind the Waterfall on Facebook and for now that is the best place to see what I am up to.
My CV	I have displayed and taught at the Inner Mountain Ceramic organization many times. I have also earned a Freddy and Peggy award by Popular Ceramics when it was in print. I have won Best in Show and Best in category several times for awards.