More Tour
“They’re so sensual. I just want to be alone with them,” I said to Joe about Silvie Granatelli’s new work when we made it out from our house to two other 16 Hands studios on Sunday.
Leaving our house, where my son Josh Copus and his guest artist Bryce Brisco were hosting their part of the annual tour, was like extracting ourselves from a vortex of energy with hundreds of people coming in and out of our home over the three day weekend. We had visitors from Louisiana, Colorado, California and quite a few from Blacksburg, Roanoke, Greensboro and Winston Salem.
After Silvie’s we had a heartwarming visit with Ellen Shankin and Brad Warstler, both, like Sylvie, founding members and master artisans of the twice yearly tour.
I talked with Laurie Shaman, the Warstler-Shankin’s guest artist from Chicago and admired the multidimensional beauty of her work, which merges her talent for drawing and painting with the art of ceramics.
Joe talked hunting with Brad and then had fun trying out a computer chair and desk that Brad made.
On the way home we got happily caught in Christmas parade traffic, which provided another photo-op and a first of the season close encounter with Santa.
We ran out of time and weren’t able to visit Rick Hensley and Donna Polseno’s studio, arriving back home just in time for a Sunday afternoon tour wind-down with an impromptu group of dear friends from Floyd who stopped by to buy some mugs.
When out on the porch there arose such a clatter. Our conversations were interrupted by the rattling of pots and the discovery that four of our chickens were trying to roost on them. On Comet! On Cupid! On Donner and Blitzen! Fly away. Fly away. Fly away all!
~ Look for more photos of the 16 Hands Studio Tour and the parade in this week’s Floyd Press. More tour photos are HERE and HERE.
November 26th, 2012 1:35 pm
[…] Post notes: Read more about Josh, the founder of the Clayspace Coop in Asheville, and his pottery and past Sixteen Hands tours HERE. A story I wrote for Clay Times in 2010 about 16 Hands and the mentoring a new generation of potters is HERE. More fall 2012 tour photos HERE and HERE. […]
November 26th, 2012 1:51 pm
Funny. Gotta love those opportunist chickens.
November 26th, 2012 2:18 pm
Luckily nothing was broke!
November 26th, 2012 4:10 pm
LOL, LOL…I cannot get over the Chickens! Great picture of that one admiring the Pottery….HA HA!
I can see why you like that first Potters work—I too, find it very sensual and beautiful…Different shapes, which are really lovely!
November 26th, 2012 4:35 pm
Oh, love those chickens!! How fun and great shots, too! I, too, love the first Potters work, really beautiful! Great captures for the day! Have a good week!
November 26th, 2012 5:28 pm
Pottery is so tactile I can’t stop myself picking it up and looking at it from every which way. Maybe that’s what the chicks were up to!
November 29th, 2012 1:36 pm
jeepers, glad the chickens didn’t break anything.
good to see your blog back up and running.
November 30th, 2012 6:14 pm
I’ve always loved Josh’s pottery but I’ve also fallen in love with Silvie Granatelli’s aqua pieces. Yummy.
December 3rd, 2012 8:58 pm
I so love the chicken shot too. It’s so Floyd. I’m so happy with the plates, platter, and coffee mugs I picked up. I’ve been using them everyday!