Betts Brown

Eyes Cup

This cup is an exploration in textures with small balls of clay added to a pinch pot. The “eyes”  have a visual, tactile and practical function. When you hold the cup, you feel the unglazed porcelain “eyes” and you are protected from hot liquids. Porcelain (cone 6), red and black underglaze on “eyes”, white glaze on interior and outside lip.

Leggy Cup

Hand built pinch pot with coil legs, porcelain (cone 6), blue underglaze mishima technique on outside, white glaze on interior and outside lip.

Smoke Bowl

Pit fired white stoneware with underglazes. Pit firing is a magical process that transforms bisqued pieces slowly fired in sawdust interlaced with copper, salts, seaweed, banana peels and many other alchemical ingredients which leave their serendipitous traces of black,
red, and gray. White stoneware with blue, gray and white underglazes, bisqued and then pit fired.