The pages in this gallery include slideshows of various types of pots: bowls and platters, vases and canisters, and jugs and pitchers, teapots, lamps, boxes, and candleholders. You can press the arrow keys on the left hand side to stop or pause the slideshow or to go through the photos at your own pace. Clicking on the icon on the right hand side opens a window that allows you to see a full size photo of the piece.

Also see my work in the following websites:

• The Artists Gallery Pages of The Potters Council
• Manassas Clay Gallery
• The Clay Connection Members Gallery (scroll down when you get to the page) 
• Design Style Guide (look for my work under Pottery & Glass -- "Vases" and also "Decorative Items") 

Common Sense Cautions

If properly cared for stoneware can be enjoyed for a long time. Please keep in mind these common sense tips:

• Studio potters do not have access to the technology and equipment necessary to create ovenware that rivals commercial pieces such as Corningware. As a precaution, users of handmade ovenware should never take it directly from the freezer to the oven and never place it in a preheated oven. Pieces should be filled so food contacts all interior surfaces. [Jonathan Kaplan, "Cooking with Clay," PotteryMaking Illustrated, November/December 2007]

• Never place a dish directly on top of a burner or in a preheated oven. Stoneware cannot withstand the thermal shock of such treatment.

• Do not take a stoneware bowl from the refrigerator directly to a hot oven. 
  Instead, place room temperature dishes in a cold oven and gradually bring the heat up to the desired temperature.

• Please remember that a stoneware mug, tea bowl or teapot will absorb heat. Take care when handling these items once hot liquid has been placed in them.

• Teapots should be warmed with hot water before filling them with boiling water.

• While stoneware can be used in a microwave oven, please keep in mind that it will get hot: use an oven mitt to handle or otherwise take precautions before taking a piece out of a microwave oven.

• Stoneware pieces are dishwasher safe. However, handle with care when washing to avoid chipping the rims.

• As with other dishes, once a piece is chipped it is likely that a crack has developed as well. It is advisable to no longer use the piece to store food. Moreover, the piece will become weak at the crack and further heating and cooling may exacerbate the crack.

• Never attempt to glue back a broken handle in a mug, pitcher or other stoneware piece because the glue is unlikely to hold once the mug is filled or heated. You may glue it back together to use as a decorative piece only.

• Lanterns, votives, candleholders, luminarias and other such pieces should never be left unattended when they have lit candle in them.