Jenny Mendes

I painted this for a friend yesterday and then delivered into my inbox this word.....synchronicity?

Yesterday this came into my email and I wanted to share! Here it comes to add fun to these cold winter nights....  The Great Pottery Thrown Down 8 episode series is starting on BBC 2   on Thursday 2nd February at 8pm. I hope you enjoy watching the series as much as I enjoyed making it with Keith, Sara and the 10 fantastic potters. "Hooray for Clay " Kate Malone

http:// www.bijougraphique.com/ valentines-day-specials/ Happy early Valentines from Bijou Graphique and DJ Freshie together again

in my shop now!   www.jennymendes.etsy.com

Hope Will Never Be Silent -- Harvey Milk

A Jenny Mendes Workshop: Painting on Clay with Terra Sigillata ~In Conjunction with Trax Gallery~ March 18, 19, 10am-4pm each day Opening of Jenny’s work at Trax Gallery on Sat., 3/18, 5pm-7pm This hands-on, two-day workshop is for anyone who wants to awaken possibilities in their work through the imaginative use of color in ceramic surface decoration. Jenny will demonstrate various colorful ways to approach the surface as a painter by means of a palette of terra sigillatas, underglaze, washes and oxides. She will present her "low-tech method" of making terra sigillata with emphasis on helping participants relax and play with color, texture and imagery on the surface of their work. We will spend the first morning making small works to decorate. Bring visual inspiration, brushes, bisque-ware or green-ware to work on as well if you have it. A willingness to have fun and embrace the deliberate awkwardness of finding oneself in unknown territory is the only prer

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

Yesterday I had the great fortune of calling someone I had been meaning to call, and though he was out, someone answered the phone that I knew and we had the accidental opportunity to reconnect.  I felt so lucky to fall into this unexpected conversation with a beautiful person from my past :) COURAGE is a word that tempts us to think outwardly, to run bravely against opposing fire, to do something under besieging circumstance, and perhaps, above all, to be seen to do it in public, to show courage; to be celebrated in story, rewarded with medals, given the accolade, but a look at its linguistic origins leads us in a more interior direction and toward its original template, the old Norman French, Coeur, or heart. Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future. To be courageous, is not necessarily to go anywhere or do anything except to make conscious those things we already feel deeply and then to live through

Twenty-four hours later through cold and snow the candle was still burning.  A small miracle.

+ Show options Wil Wagner (The Smith Street Band) – More Like Signals Midbest from The Smith Street Band on Vimeo . This video will be embedded at 6 Rest in peace Jesse & Marley you were well loved..... together in Life & and death.

Beginning to glaze work for an upcoming show at Trax Gallery!