Schnauzer Portrait

Seated Schnauzer, S. Myers    ink on paper

Still-Life and Amy Myers Rustic Collection

Still-Life with Grapes and White Bowl, S. Myers   Photograph 2012

White Pot, Rustic Collection
Amy Myers
Stoneware, Tin-White Glaze

     
   Earlier this year I was privileged to take photos for Amy Myers' "Rustic Collection", a series of hand-thrown ceramics inspired by the Middle Ages -  by its rustic daily ware, produced at the same time the great French cathedrals were being built, and full of the same astonishing combination of sunlight, quiet, and overwhelming nervous energy. 

White Bowl, Rustic Collection
Amy Myers
Stoneware, Tin-White Glaze

    Amy Myers has conveyed this emotion into her collection, which are her own forms and conception but also her own materials: glaze, clay, and combinations.  I endeavored to capture their quality in my photography.  Beside the set of pictures I took for her site, I also created a still-life with the bowl from the series.  I feel it to be a sober, handsome composition, suggesting simplicity rather than over-abundance; the quiet gravity of the pottery has created its own core balance.

White Pitcher, Rustic Collection
Amy Myers
Stoneware, Tin-White Glaze

Dog Sketch, charcoal

Expectation (The Black Puppy)

Still a Rose Photograph

Still a Rose

   The year is growing later, even in this place of sun and warmth.  Taken with my Canon at the end of November.

Star Medallion

           Levantine Star  
   S. Myers   Medallion, cut paper

    This decorative medallion was inspired by intricate stone-carving on a pillar in Israel.

Photo of a Black Puppy

Attentive

Carnation Medallion, Cut Paper

Vase of Carnations, S. Myers    Cut Paper Medallion

   The inspiration for this piece was a distantly glimpsed faience tile.  The medallion gained a life of its own with broad vases and exuberant blooms - it is an exceedingly fragile framework of paper!

Winter and Winter

Winter

Also Winter

   The meaning of the four seasons is utterly dependent on latitude and just a little on sea-current.  My feet, making a bold jump the equivalent of two latitude-lines, have carried a brain with them not entirely adjusted to the difference...
    The world is filled with so many varied winters.

Depiction of a Lizard

Lizard Sketch

Cat in Black and White

A Listening Cat