"The Pollinator" Sculpture by Michael W. Moses SOLD

As I sometimes tell people.  I love doing pottery and I love doing bead work and sometimes I just get a bit excited and do both at the same time. This is one of those occasions where I do both pottery and bead work to create the effect that I desire. 

I have been using clay as a creative medium for well over thirty years now and I have been doing bead work for as long as I can remember. By the time I was a teenager I was doing small bead work things on my bell bottom jeans dragonflies and such.  So doing a piece like this that is half pottery and half bead work is not a very unusual thing for me to do.

The hand modeled pottery base  has a solid three dimensional sculpted in the round form, that gives this piece a sense of weight and reality that I really like. The bead work portion has a light weight airiness that gives this work a delightfully alienness that blends to form a truly impressive work of art in my opinion. I call this work  "The Pollinator" and if you look closely you can see why I have chosen this name. The little floater is created out of little tiny mini seed beads and is firmly anchored in place, but looks as if he is just floating or swimming on by after having fulfilled his natural duty in his niche in an alien ecosystem.

 The bead work is all created on wire in the traditional French Beaded Flower technique to make a shimmering delicate presentation that will be both eye catching and sturdy enough to last for a very long time if just a little care is taken.

The hand crafted pottery base is about 6 inches across the bottom at the widest and is approximately 6 inches tall.  The over all height of this piece is 19 inches tall with the bead work in place.

I spent more than a small amount of time planning and setting things in place to get this work completed.  Some of the beads I used have been in my stock of glass beads for well over 35 years and were being saved for something special and I assure you that this was the something special that they were waiting for.  The bead work on this piece trembles with the slightest movement or breeze!  as I look at it setting in my kitchen, it just shimmers and shines as it every so often slightly moves in the warm evening air coming through my windows.

What "The Pollinator" looks like in my kitchen

This piece is now in a private collection in Ocean Springs, MS

August ,Sold Pottery,Long Beach Bead Show, South Coast Antiques!

Well, it's been a while since I've made a post, so, here I go. I have been busy doing a bunch of different non pottery related things. I have been working on jewelry, getting antiques priced and ready to put out in the shop and we've also had a larger than normal number of people coming in wanting appraisals and wanting to sell us stuff!

Yesterday we went to a small bead show in Long Beach. We picked up a number of really nice beads. I got a
pretty good deal on some Cloisonné cross shaped beads. I also picked up some nice irregularity shape jade beads. One of my best deals was on a bunch of faceted gemstone beads. I did a bit of work on pottery last week. I worked on painting a bit. But I was not really feeling up to speed, so it was all a bit half-hearted.

The Other Side of the Vally Plate
SOLD

One bright point was on Saturday when I had a couple come in to buy a piece of my pottery. they spent a fairly short time looking it over and then the woman said there it is! The Other Side of the Vally Plate. That is the one I want!  So she bought it. I must admit that it is always an ego boost to sell a piece of my pottery.

August has traditionally been slow in our shop. The previous owners of the antique shop that was here before South Coast Antiques and Gallery, said that August was always slow for them also. So far this August we have not done to bad.

Dragon Finger Bone Reliquary by Michael W. Moses

  

This is my "Dragon Finger Bone Reliquary".  This is an artifact from a far away time and place where dragons were more common than they ever were here on Earth. This exotic relic is fashioned out of one large finger bone that has been intricately carved and embellished with bright jewel like enameled colors. It has been finished off with a mixture of  precious beads. This fantastic work of art is approximately 12 inches long, not including the beads and of course is available and can be viewed at South Coast Antiques & Gallery in Ocean Springs, MS.