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About me… I live with my singer-songwriter husband, Dave Nachmanoff ([email protected]) and my two kids, Sophia and Django, in the small college town of Davis, California. We like to call our home Nachville, because it's a little like a village compound with a small house that contains my ceramics studio, and a bunch of garden sheds that have been turned into a professional music recording studio, an art gallery and an art supply warehouse. Besides creating work in my studio, I enjoy doing clay workshops in the Davis elementary schools and teaching classes at a couple non-profit art centers in town. My classes and workshops focus on process rather than product with an aim of developing an ease and comfort with clay and a fluid approach to working with it. I also participate in community theater as a scenic artist, set designer, and PA to my theater-obsessed children.
About the pots… I use a variety of clay bodies to create one-of-a-kind functional and decorative pottery that is often highly textured and evocative of patterns in nature. Finished pottery I generally cover with glazes I prepare myself. I bake the glazed pots to a very high temperature (above 2,000 degreesF) in my electric kiln. The variations between pots and within a single pot come from differences in glaze composition and differences within the kiln atmosphere.
More recently, I have ventured into sculptural work. Even my sculptures tend to begin on the potter’s wheel where I create the basic forms to be altered later, stretching the limits of what can be done with single and multiple symmetrical wheel-thrown forms in sculptural design. I refer to some of my more whimsical sculptural pieces as “clay cartoons.” These cartoons gravitate towards domestic themes and usually convey a subtle (or not-so-subtle!) message. My sculptural work often includes a combination of my own glazes and commercially prepared glazes that I purchase, but my firing process for these is similar to my firings of functional pottery.
My pottery and sculptures have appeared in shows at the Davis Art Center, Pence Gallery in Davis, and in gallery/museum stores at the Pence and at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento.
I conserve and recycle all materials and avoid using chemicals that are persistent and harmful to the human body and the environment. All my pottery is food-safe. You can put it in your microwave, in the oven, or in the dishwasher, but not directly on a stove burner as the direct heat is likely to cause cracking. Please place a plate under vases or other pots that are intended to hold water over several days. I hope you will select a piece that enriches your life in some wonderful (and perhaps unexpected) way!
You can reach me at [email protected].
About the pots… I use a variety of clay bodies to create one-of-a-kind functional and decorative pottery that is often highly textured and evocative of patterns in nature. Finished pottery I generally cover with glazes I prepare myself. I bake the glazed pots to a very high temperature (above 2,000 degreesF) in my electric kiln. The variations between pots and within a single pot come from differences in glaze composition and differences within the kiln atmosphere.
More recently, I have ventured into sculptural work. Even my sculptures tend to begin on the potter’s wheel where I create the basic forms to be altered later, stretching the limits of what can be done with single and multiple symmetrical wheel-thrown forms in sculptural design. I refer to some of my more whimsical sculptural pieces as “clay cartoons.” These cartoons gravitate towards domestic themes and usually convey a subtle (or not-so-subtle!) message. My sculptural work often includes a combination of my own glazes and commercially prepared glazes that I purchase, but my firing process for these is similar to my firings of functional pottery.
My pottery and sculptures have appeared in shows at the Davis Art Center, Pence Gallery in Davis, and in gallery/museum stores at the Pence and at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento.
I conserve and recycle all materials and avoid using chemicals that are persistent and harmful to the human body and the environment. All my pottery is food-safe. You can put it in your microwave, in the oven, or in the dishwasher, but not directly on a stove burner as the direct heat is likely to cause cracking. Please place a plate under vases or other pots that are intended to hold water over several days. I hope you will select a piece that enriches your life in some wonderful (and perhaps unexpected) way!
You can reach me at [email protected].