How Psychedelic, Rainbow Pottery Is Made.

Colored clay, it's like a different art form. I can work more or less in the same way a painter works. Once I got into that, it just totally lit me up. The flash bulb went off over my head, and I was like, this is my thing, and I've been doing that ever since. About 10 years ago, I got into colored clay and immediately realized that there were incredible possibilities for creating imagery and working with color in ways that are unavailable to other ceramic technicians. You always spend time decorating pieces and you put a lot of effort, sometimes an enormous amount of effort. What I've done is I've condensed the decoration so when I complete one of these blocks, in essence I've done the decoration for 500 pieces. Since I sell from my studio, I get to watch my customer's response to every piece that I make. The comment I get most often, which I really appreciate, is I've never seen anything like that before. They think there's something nourishing about it.