Graham was prolific on the wheel, still is. He would create piece after piece, and I would struggle to keep up with the trimming and glazing. Let us be honest here, the glazing would be done slightly more sporadic than our ceramics teacher would like as we would have shelves filled with bisque pieces. Glazing was generally done in a frenzy, and much to the dismay of our teacher, I rarely took notes. This would only become an issue if something amazing came out of the kiln, and I had no idea how I did it and could not easily replicate it.
We would bring home boxes of finished pieces. We would visit our families and usually leave a piece or two behind. They now have quite the collection and saw our skills grow piece by piece.
The remaining pieces we would take home and put on a shelf in our garage, literally sitting there, gathering dust. Occasionally we headed out to the garage if we needed a vase, a bowl, or a plate.
If you invited us to dinner and asked us to ‘bring a plate’, you would not only get food but the plate/bowl it comes on too.
It took us 3 years before we decided to form a business out of this hobby. The main driver for this was that we were running out of room for our pieces. We have shelves and shelves lined with pieces, like our personal art gallery.
We were going to have to move some pieces along if we were going to be able to fit more. Now because our shelves are full, you have the chance to own a piece of GLASS Ceramics.
