This light blue pie plate with 3 hand painted roses are tied
with a bow and hearts.
It is a great gift for mom any time of the year.
($15.00)
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Flower Plate
This light blue pie plate with 3 hand painted roses are tied
with a bow and hearts.
It is a great gift for mom any time of the year.
($15.00)
Friday, August 28, 2009
The LightHouse Plate
The LightHouse Plate is a wheel turned deep dishpie plate with laced edge. Imprint of lighthouse will appear on anything you bake.
This pie plate is one of my most popular pieces. Each one is hand painted, making them one of a kind.
Oven safe to 400° and dishwasher safe.
“Happy the Frog” Plate
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Leaf Plate
A deep-dish Pie plate with lace edge.
Ivory glaze and a Moody blue edge with a hand painted leaf in the center,
glazed in Ivory Towers and a Cobalt Blue rim.
Oven safe to 400° and dishwasher safe
($25.00)
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Red Bowl
This large wheeled turned bowl is the right size for a bowl of ice cream.
Big enough for 4 or 5 scoops with the works.
The glaze is Raspberry Ice. ($12.50)
Turtle Plate
Fun for parties!! Rick, Tim, Bob and Gary are having fun in the mud playing Spin the Turtle with Phil.
This 14" plate is great for Chips 'n Dip and will make people have fun!!!
($22.50)
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Emily's Senior Project
Emily is a senior at Central High School in Davidson County, North Carolina. She has been a pottery student for two years. The vase she is painting is her Senior Project. The vase is a flat piece that is covered with lady bugs, butterflies and dragonflies. It stands 20 inches tall and is 8 inches wide with leaves and a friendly little worm on the base.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Under The Sea Plate
Under The Sea Plate - is an oyster and shrimp plate. It is a 12 inch dinner plate.Large dinner plate with fish bowl set in center, great for shrimp cocktail or chip-n-dip.
($25.00)
Jungle Plate Collection
Jungle Plate Collection - is an animal collection inspired by Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park.
Black Plane Dish
Black Plane Dish - is a candy dish, a change dish and a cereal dish.
It comes in a variety of colors.
Lady Bug Plate
Lady Bug Plate - is a 9 inch plate. It is one of 20 insect plates I have made.
Painted in Plum Blossom and Really Red glazes.($12.00)
Red Hatter Change/Key Dish
Red Hat Change/Key Dish - is 4 inch round dish. The color is Grape Divine with a Really Red hat.
Art courtesy of Michaela Davidson
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Work in Progress
These are some pieces in progress.
You can see the Blind Potter's imagination in action below.
Granny Pot and the Turtle Pot
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Red Hatter Plate
The Red Hatter Plate - is a ten inch sandwich plate with a red pillbox hat in the centerand both are glazed in Really Red and purple hearts.
~ The Red Hat Society is a social organization founded in 1998 for women approaching the age of 50 and beyond. ~
Palm Leaf Bread Plate
Palm Leaf Bread Plate - is a plate ideal for serving a variety of dishes. It can also be used for serving sliced meats; it will hold about 2 lbs. of meat. Other uses can be to serve slices of bread and buns on this plate.
Bread plate in the shape of a leaf painted in fall colors.
Bread plate in the shape of a leaf painted in fall colors.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Saturday, September 1, 2007
Best of Texas Festival - Six Flags over Texas
Dad is helping me hang BirdBaths. "...a little to the left!!" 
My brother built this booth for me.Thursday, December 28, 2006
Pottery helps woman adapt to sightless world
A new life started for Kerry Wilson at the age of 37. Due to a genetic disorder called pseudoxanthoma elasticum, or PXE, she lost her sight and had to learn to adapt to life without seeing anymore.
Kerry Wilson teaches Girl Scouts as she paints at Beck's Lutheran Church recently. The scouts made pottery gifts for their families for Christmas, with assistance from Wilson. The scouts will also earn 'Try-It' badges for their efforts.
Want to know more?Kerry Wilson teaches pottery at the Robbins Recreation Center from 6-7:30 p.m. every Thursday. Classes are $90 for eight weeks and includes all supplies. For more information on Wilson's pottery go to www.blindpotter.net or call 240-1810.
PXE is a progressive disorder that affects connective tissue, the material that supports and holds together different structures of the body. It causes the elastic fibers that are normally found in the skin, the retina of the eyes and blood vessels, to become calcified and lose their elasticity.
As a way to relieve stress with her disorder she began learning how to make pottery.
"I beat up the clay," she said. "It was relaxing."
Wilson, 47, was born in California. After being raised in Texas, she moved to the Carolinas for her children to have a safer environment to grow up in 1988.
While in the Carolinas, she worked in retail and furniture. That all changed in June 1997, when she lost her eyesight. Wilson has peripheral vision, meaning she can see shadows and movement.
After someone suggested Wilson learn pottery to relieve stress, she had to find a person to teach her the basics from scratch.
"I didn't even know what pottery was," Wilson said. "It was all new to me. I liked playing in the mud. It became very relaxing."
She said making pottery was helpful because after she lost her vision she became depressed and did not want to get out of bed. Wilson said creating pottery gave her a reason to get up in the morning.
"I couldn't wait to see what I could create for the day," she said. "I love it."
In a short matter of time, Wilson learned the key to pottery was the feeling.
"It came real easy," she said. "It's all in the way you feel."
In due time, Wilson was sculpturing angels, mermaids, birdhouses, bowls and plates. The bowls and plates ranged from holiday themes and pictures of flowers, turtles, frogs or anything you can imagine, which are hand-painted by Wilson.
Wilson does most of her creations in a room in the back of the house beside her kitchen, which she refers to as the "mud room." The room has more than 3,000 cookie cutters, decorative pieces and stained-glass window pieces of different shapes to help her.
She has numbers on paint bottles to guide her when choosing colors.
All of her art utensils are from houseware items such as a cheese cutter, garlic press, rolling pin and toothbrushes.
She can create up to 20 plates or half a dozen figurines a day depending on if she's preparing for a show or just creating ideas in her head. It's not hard for her to create the pieces of artwork, but it takes time to hand-paint them.
When Wilson is not in her mud room she can be found all over Davidson County teaching classes and doing shows, especially with Arts United for Davidson County. She never imagined after learning to make pottery she would also teach it.
"I enjoy showing people how to do it," she said. "I love working with kids because they have such a wonderful imagination. They're fabulous."
For the past seven years, she has been the artist for the annual chili cookoff trophy toppers sponsored by March of Dimes and 104.1 WTQR and held at Tanglewood Park in Forsyth County.
Last year she spent 14 weeks at Disney World doing shows and teaching. She has also had some artwork displayed at Six Flags Over Texas.
She has artwork on display at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities in Nashville, Tenn.
An ultimate goal for her is to have her work shown at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tenn.
What started as a stress reliever led to a passion Wilson never knew she had.
She said none of it would have been possible without the help and support of her husband of nine years, Mark. She said he takes care of all the business for her while she's the artist.
Besides her husband pottery is one is the best things that has happened to Wilson.
"It's definitely a gift," she said. "I enjoy it. I'm always looking for new things to create."
Deneesha Edwards can be reached at 249-3981, ext. 213, or at deneesha.edwards@the-dispatch.com.
Kerry Wilson teaches Girl Scouts as she paints at Beck's Lutheran Church recently. The scouts made pottery gifts for their families for Christmas, with assistance from Wilson. The scouts will also earn 'Try-It' badges for their efforts.
Bobbie Jamison/The Dispatch
Want to know more?Kerry Wilson teaches pottery at the Robbins Recreation Center from 6-7:30 p.m. every Thursday. Classes are $90 for eight weeks and includes all supplies. For more information on Wilson's pottery go to www.blindpotter.net or call 240-1810.
PXE is a progressive disorder that affects connective tissue, the material that supports and holds together different structures of the body. It causes the elastic fibers that are normally found in the skin, the retina of the eyes and blood vessels, to become calcified and lose their elasticity.
As a way to relieve stress with her disorder she began learning how to make pottery.
"I beat up the clay," she said. "It was relaxing."
Wilson, 47, was born in California. After being raised in Texas, she moved to the Carolinas for her children to have a safer environment to grow up in 1988.
While in the Carolinas, she worked in retail and furniture. That all changed in June 1997, when she lost her eyesight. Wilson has peripheral vision, meaning she can see shadows and movement.
After someone suggested Wilson learn pottery to relieve stress, she had to find a person to teach her the basics from scratch.
"I didn't even know what pottery was," Wilson said. "It was all new to me. I liked playing in the mud. It became very relaxing."
She said making pottery was helpful because after she lost her vision she became depressed and did not want to get out of bed. Wilson said creating pottery gave her a reason to get up in the morning.
"I couldn't wait to see what I could create for the day," she said. "I love it."
In a short matter of time, Wilson learned the key to pottery was the feeling.
"It came real easy," she said. "It's all in the way you feel."
In due time, Wilson was sculpturing angels, mermaids, birdhouses, bowls and plates. The bowls and plates ranged from holiday themes and pictures of flowers, turtles, frogs or anything you can imagine, which are hand-painted by Wilson.
She said every piece is made different or with a flaw.
"They're not all perfect, like we are," Wilson said. "They're all unique and one of a kind."
Wilson learned to paint scenery and animals from an artist who taught her how to stroke the curve of the items. She used big barrels to practice on and then learned how to minimize the artwork on pottery pieces.
"They're not all perfect, like we are," Wilson said. "They're all unique and one of a kind."
Wilson learned to paint scenery and animals from an artist who taught her how to stroke the curve of the items. She used big barrels to practice on and then learned how to minimize the artwork on pottery pieces.
Wilson does most of her creations in a room in the back of the house beside her kitchen, which she refers to as the "mud room." The room has more than 3,000 cookie cutters, decorative pieces and stained-glass window pieces of different shapes to help her.
She has numbers on paint bottles to guide her when choosing colors.
All of her art utensils are from houseware items such as a cheese cutter, garlic press, rolling pin and toothbrushes.
She can create up to 20 plates or half a dozen figurines a day depending on if she's preparing for a show or just creating ideas in her head. It's not hard for her to create the pieces of artwork, but it takes time to hand-paint them.
When Wilson is not in her mud room she can be found all over Davidson County teaching classes and doing shows, especially with Arts United for Davidson County. She never imagined after learning to make pottery she would also teach it.
"I enjoy showing people how to do it," she said. "I love working with kids because they have such a wonderful imagination. They're fabulous."
For the past seven years, she has been the artist for the annual chili cookoff trophy toppers sponsored by March of Dimes and 104.1 WTQR and held at Tanglewood Park in Forsyth County.
Last year she spent 14 weeks at Disney World doing shows and teaching. She has also had some artwork displayed at Six Flags Over Texas.
She has artwork on display at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities in Nashville, Tenn.
An ultimate goal for her is to have her work shown at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tenn.
What started as a stress reliever led to a passion Wilson never knew she had.
She said none of it would have been possible without the help and support of her husband of nine years, Mark. She said he takes care of all the business for her while she's the artist.
Besides her husband pottery is one is the best things that has happened to Wilson.
"It's definitely a gift," she said. "I enjoy it. I'm always looking for new things to create."
Deneesha Edwards can be reached at 249-3981, ext. 213, or at deneesha.edwards@the-dispatch.com.
Published: Thursday, December 28, 2006 at 8:52 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, December 28, 2006 at 9:40 a.m.
Monday, December 9, 2002
Holiday Marketplace
Bobbie Jamison/The Dispatch
Kerry Wilson, a blind potter, flattens a round of clay slip before using a rolling pin to make cookie cutter ornaments at the March Café Saturday afternoon during the Arts United Holiday Marketplace and the Blooming Artists Market in Uptown Lexington. Wilson makes by hand other types of ceramic pieces using her sense of touch.
Published: Monday, December 9, 2002 at 10:53 a.m.
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