Souper Supper

Getting to handle work so different from my own always is a big treat. I'm still cleaning and reboxing up works in prep for the TideWater's SouperSupper Friday night. 

Here's a look at a few more of Bruce Cadman's works for the event.

Low and slow. 

The alchemy of the surface is gorgeous.

Clay Porno

 Leave it to my partner in clay to work this into his line-up. 

This is a Bruce Cadman special.

The novel feature is how the 06 Black glaze reacted to the decals... they turned red!

Special note (The red dots happen to be decals of vintage porno, so if you blow this up to take a good look, don't say I didn't warn you!)

More Titillating TeaPots

After all the think'n about Art vs craft and the general lack of ability to critically write about what it is exactly that we are doing, (here's the link to the editorial that's got a lot of us think'n)... I had to take a break and get back to fun.

Bruce Cadman brought by 2 more teapots to put through the photo booth this morning. These are just getting better and better.

Whatever you think about his work, it does make you stop and look.

Titillating TeaPots

These are 2 out of a collection of 6 teapots fresh from the kiln of local ceramic artist Bruce Cadman.

I love his work for so many reasons, but what I thoroughly enjoy is getting to watch people's reactions as they try to walk by his work without looking at it.

Naughty naughty dirty old potters!

A Minor Fall From Grace

That's not good...


I'm not sure of the title that the Bruce originally gave this teapot, but "A Minor Fall From Grace" is the title that I surreptitiously handed this work this week. Local artist Bruce Cadman had brought in a few works for photographing. Usually this is a painless exercise...but this time I broke his newest work as I was taking it off the light table. Doh!

The "up-side" is that Bruce is a really nice guy, (a little strange, yes, but hey who am I to point?) and we had just gotten the piece fully photographed. His only request was to have a picture of it while it was still in one piece.

No problem...

Sorry Bruce...

P.S. Your wife paid me $5 to smash the peice, but now she won't pay... so I'm making this into postcards to hand-out at this weekends event...

Just kidding.

Bruce Cadman

The 2nd ceramic artist that was involved in last weekends "Stroll & Jazz" on the Miracle Mile in Stockton, was ever amazing Bruce Cadman. (Actually I'm very happy to say he was more than just involved, he was the major motivator for this entire project.)
Thanks Bruce!!!
I'm always thrilled to be sitting next to Bruce. His ceramic work is very definitely unlike anything else ccurrently out there. It's imaginative, thoughtful, and full of obsessive detail. Yum! The best part is that I'm getting to watch an artist in a transformation period. His work seems to be very quickly evolving into something even more compelling and evocative. His MO is to only creates a small number of pieces a year, meticulously pouring over the details and putting them though a range of atmospheres in search of a finished surface. Judging from what I'm seeing in the studio right now, I'm really curios to see where he's taking his work this next season.

Raku with Bruce

Another fun day spent with Bruce Cadman.

Man... I think that this guy really needs to wear a cape and mask, he seems to have way too much fun!

He did let me put in a piece in the raku kiln to see what might come out. I just sat back and took pictures…

Ahhhhh this is the good life! Where’s my whiskey and cigar?