Category: pottery

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Sydney Teapot Show 2022

detail of a Jabberwocky teapot in Steampunk style by PJ Pottery

We love the Sydney Teapot Show! This year one of the categories was to create a teapot based on a nonsense poem so of course, I made a Jabberwocky holding a teapot inspired by the Lewis Carroll poem

I have put in an entry in each year for many years. There is usually a choice of themes to challenge potters to great heights of creativity. This is an amazing exhibition that potters and collectors around Australia look forward to each year.

If you are in Sydney around Saturday 17 September – Sunday 16 October 2022 call into the Kerrie Lowe Gallery in Newtown and view the amazing and diverse teapots from around Australia.

Here you can view and purchase our handmade Australian made teapots

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jewellery highlight

row of ceramic earrings
porcelain earrings

This winter I wanted to share some love and offer a special on PJ Pottery jewellery which includes my porcelain earrings and glass bead necklaces. And you get to hear about it first!

Until 31 August 2022 I am offering a 25% discount to the handmade jewellery range (not applicable to sale items). Apply  WINTERLOVE in the coupon box at cart to apply the discount and you will also get free postage for your jewellery purchase across Australia. 

 PS I would love you to leave a review of PJ Pottery on Google  Thanks!

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above-ground pit firing. smoke and magic

What an enjoyable winter morning at PJ Pottery! A group of my dedicated students had created pots for this pit firing and were rewarded with some fabulous results. We used a variety of combustible materials for colour and effects and now can’t wait to do another firing!

Nicci explaining the unpacking of the pit firing
2 people getting pots from a box
pottery bowls on the ground
pot ready for a pit firing
pots ready for a pit firing in a bed of sawdust
pit firing in drum lit and burning wood
pot ready for a pit firing
pit fired pots on a table
pit fired square pot
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Rain, rain, go away

Here on our misty mountain we have had 4 days of rain and more to come, the mould is happy! The biggest problem is that pots won’t dry so heaters are on and the firings are very slow. On a happy note, my Mt Tamborine classes are full and running and a new 5 week course at Gold Coast Potters Mudgeeraba studio is about to start on 25 May. If you are on the Goldie and interested in getting into clay either for the first time or as a return, this is your chance.

BOOKINGS HERE

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‘Rona came to visit

Yes, I finally got the dreaded virus – so hello 7 days of isolation, then my poor husband got it which turned into 14 days. After losing a few days to coughing, sniffling and fevers, I made the most of my time in the studio: recycling clay, tidying the shelves and of course making teapots! Below are works in progress that I have enjoyed creating with a bit less hurry and distractions than usual.

I also finished a few sample beakers from the recent surface treatment workshop I gave in Redcliffe. I’ve since made a few more which will have a touch of gold added to increase their beautiful blinginess! These have a variety of techniques applied such as slip decoration, inlay, resist, sgraffitto and stencils plus underglaze painting. There are some of these colourful beakers for sale at e360 Design on Gallery Walk, Mount Tamborine.

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handmade love

I was commissioned to make a large hand built planter for siblings who had recently lost their mother. She loved gardenias and this pot was going to hold their mum’s ashes and a gardenia in her honour. It was my honour to create this piece for them. This is a short video of smoothing the surface as I add each new coil.

Video music credit: Emancipator, Greenland, 2010 (Safe in the Steep Cliffs album)

two people receiving their hand built planter commission
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pottery rocks!

Happy New Year! I am pleased to say that in 2022 pottery continues to go strong. My classes are full and back for term 1 and my students are as keen as to learn more about this wonderful craft. I am receiving commissions regularly, these are always a welcome challenge and I feel privileged to be able to create handmade pieces to order.

I love teaching and sharing my skills and so I am doing some short instructional videos that I will post here and on my social media pages. As a bit of a teaser, this is one surface treatment process using resist tape on a ceramic bowl to create lines in a glaze. This piece is not fired yet so you’ll have to wait with me to see the results!

masking pattern on clay bowl
freshly glazed ceramic bowl
Peeling resist tape off a glazed ceramic bowl
revealing the pattern by peeling back the tape through the glaze
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Goodbye 2021 + Hello 2022!

What an incredible year of ups and downs for us all. I feel incredibly lucky to have my own studio on Mt Tamborine, Queensland and have been able to teach, provide workshops and sell work throughout the year. I feel for my fellow artists doing it tough through COVID restrictions. Remember, every time you purchase handmade you are supporting the arts and WE THANK YOU!

It was a busy year for me creating loads of new teapots; experimenting with coloured porcelain clay for jewellery; organising two exhibitions for Ceramic Arts Qld and oh yeah…I got married to the love of my life! #happydance

As a way of bringing in the new year with style I will be offering a 2022 PJ Pottery Teapot Calendar Every month features an image of a unique handmade teapot that I have made this year with a few from the archive. The A4 calendar will cost $25 and includes postage within Australia.

If you would like to pre-order please email me at hello@pjpottery.com

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Winter at the studio

We are all rugged up on Tamborine Mountain, wood smoke fills the evening air but it’s been snug and cosy at the PJ Pottery Studio and my wonderful enthusiastic students have just finished term 2 classes. I am so proud of their progress and some magic pots have been created over the last 10 weeks. Check out these amazing works including some marvellous monsters from a children’s pottery workshop I conducted in April with Scenic Rim Regional Council

Don’t forget my WINTER SALE of handmade jewellery ends last day of June – HAPPY SHOPPING!