The Other Oeuvre: pottery

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July 25, 2017

Still-Life with Water-pots - Painting by Sarah Myers

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Still-Life with Two Water-pots, Sarah Myers
Acrylic on canvas

My newest painting is a still-life with two water-pots - one holding small date-palm fronds – and between them a cluster of rich red grapes. The larger of the two vessels is a majolica piece decorated in happy, bright patterns; the smaller, with its dignified stance and deep terracotta colour, is pottery created by my sister Amy. Overhead, the sharp, fragile leaves of the palm reach out to embrace the whole – the two jars, a white wall, and the fruit tumbling forward toward us.

Still-Life with Two Water-pots, detail. Sarah Myers

Still-Life with Two Water-pots. Detail of smaller vessel.

Still-Life with Two Water-pots. Detail.

January 25, 2016

Large Still-Life with Pumello - Painting by Sarah Myers

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Still-life with Pumello, Sarah Myers

In this very large still-life are two warm red, earthenware vessels, hand-built by my sister, Amy Myers; around and inside the clay pots are fruit, dark grapes and an enormous, yellow-green pumello. The colour of the pumello is, as depicted in the picture, a bracing chartreuse; it is a plump fruit, ancestor of the grapefruit, with thicker rind and blander taste. It is slightly flattened, and for the painting's composition I actually propped it upright on the single grape you see under it to the right. The rest of the grape cluster, climbing from the earthenware bowl, fills the space left between bowl and the tall red pot. The artwork is acrylic on canvas.

Still-Life with Pumello, Sarah Myers
Detail

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Detail

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Still-Life with Pumello, Sarah Myers
Detail of grapes

September 18, 2015

Cactus and Agave - on the Patio

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Cactus
Photography, Sarah Myers

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Agave Center
Photography, Sarah Myers

May 13, 2015

Morning Cherries, Photography by Sarah Myers

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Morning Cherries
Photography by Sarah Myers

A bowl of deep red, juicy fruit and their crowd of little stems, just waiting... And the cheerful orange of lantana. The bowl and the pot are handthrown ceramics by Amy Myers, see her creations here.

May 10, 2015

Wine-Coloured Chrysanthemums

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Chrysanthemums, Desert Branches in a Pitcher
Photography by Sarah Myers

Great, glowing burgundy chrysanthemums, placed in a graceful pitcher - a form inspired by an ancient Greek shape, the oinochoe, and created by Amy Myers. Photography by Sarah Myers.

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Wine-coloured Chrysanthemums
Photography, Sarah Myers

January 5, 2013

Fruit Still-Life

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California Fruit S. Myers, Photograph 2013

This and the previous post are still-lifes created with an earthenware pot I built years ago and some produce from my new locale. The brilliance of the color matched the simplicity of the shapes, everything forming a harmony very far from the flying ice and deep-frozen gray fields I associate with January.

December 16, 2012

Still-Life and Amy Myers Rustic Collection

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

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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.

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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.

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