Blue Moon Clay Studio
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Pottery art is one of civilization’s oldest art forms. For thousands of years, people around the world have been making pottery for daily use and ceremonial expression.
The history of ceramic art exemplifies a deep appreciation for “hand made” pottery. The Arts & Crafts Movement first developed in Europe, primarily as a search for authentic and meaningful styles for the 19th century and as a reaction to “soulless” machine-made production aided by the Industrial Revolution.
In America in the 1890’s, a group of Boston’s most influential architects, designers and educators wanted to follow in the footsteps of the European movement and organized an exhibition of contemporary crafts. This show featured over 1000 objects comprised of ceramic and pottery art made by 160 craftspeople, half of which were women. This exhibition spawned a wide variety of expressions in the arts and crafts movement, including the studio craft movement, exemplified by Rookwood Pottery and Bernard Leach in England. It is in the spirit of this studio artist movement that Blue Moon Clay Studios, in Greenwich, New York began.
Brenda McMahon of Blue Moon Clay Studios combines ancient Native American pottery art traditions with a Japanese influence in her wheel thrown porcelain vessels and tiles. Some of the forms are burnished and saggar fired, others are layered with colored slips, carved and pit-fired.
Brenda’s tiles are “fire paintings” that capture the mystery and magic of both the ceramic arts and the alchemy of fire to produce unique, beautiful pottery art.
Brenda McMahon
2242 Route 113 Greenwich, NY 12834
518.692.7742
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