"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

Symbiosis Ceramic Art Pottery Vase by Michael W. Moses SOLD!

Today I sold my piece of hand crafted ceramic art pottery that I called Symbiosis Vase, this piece was featured in an earlier post.  I was working in the shop packing up things for the move, when two of the people that collect my art pottery showed up to buy it.

The move is going slowly but surely.  We have until 1 April to have everything out and finished.  It seems like we will make it with a little bit of work though.

Symbiosis Ceramic Art Pottery Vase by Michael W. Moses

Symbiosis Ceramic Art Pottery Vase by Michael W. Moses 

This one I call the Symbiosis Vase.  This is a very special piece of ceramic art pottery that I have hand sculpted to show the truly symbiotic relationship that not only exists in nature but also among friends. This piece shows three totally unique entities that have bonded together against all odds and are living a happily contented life together. They will stick through it all and press on with things using each other as a support against the savage harsh world around them. Basically best friends forever, so to speak.

I have, as always, crafted this boldly colored work of ceramic art pottery by hand and lavishly layered the underglaze paints to give the piece that little extra that makes it truly stand out. 

This is another one of those pieces that photographs just do not show off very well. The colors on this work fairly well glow and the dark luster is just wonderful. It really has to be seen to be fully appreciated.

I believe this to be one of my best and most exciting works of ceramic art pottery to date.

Symbiosis Ceramic Art Pottery Vase by Michael W. Moses 

A few more images of this ceramic art pottery piece can be seen on Etsy.com.
 http://www.etsy.com/listing/92548280/symbiosis-ceramic-art-pottery-vase-by

This new piece of my ceramic art pottery may be viewed in person at South Coast Antiques & Gallery in Ocean Springs, MS.

Newest Bulb Vase by Michael W. Moses SOLD at South Coast Antiques & Gallery

Well, this one did not last long at South Coast Antiques & Gallery in Ocean Springs, MS!
It's about to be boxed and sent off to it's new home in Virginia! I must admit that I really was pleased with the way the colors came out on this piece of ceramic art pottery. The colors really seem to pop and give a truly vibrant character to this lively one of a kind vase.

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 Here  is what it looked like after the first firing.

The bisque stage.

After I have meticulously painted it, before I added the dots

on the roots and before being glazed.

After a coat of glaze over the paint and the second firing.

New Artist Madeline Nolan at South Coast Antiques & Gallery

Ceramic Artist 
Madeline Nolan

We would like to welcome a new artist at South Coast Antiques & Gallery. Our new Artist is Madeline Nolan. She is a well known local artist, born, raised, and a life long resident of the Gulf Coast. Madeline has been doing art for about fifty years. Much of her past work has been in the field of painting and watercolors. Her ceramic art pottery works, showcase her painterly background and gives her pottery a truly beautiful hand crafted feeling.

She chooses Coastal themes and the bright sun drenched local colors of the area to embellish here gem like pieces. Many of her works draw upon the impressionist movement and specifically the works of Vincent Van Gogh. One of her most popular series is her "Starry Night" pieces that have the blazing Van Gogh Starry skies mixed with the liveliness of Gulf Coast imagery. We are pleased to now be carrying her latest pieces here in Ocean Springs. So, come on down and give them a look the next time you are in the area!

SOLD!