Bonnie Brushwood
Passage, 2017
Hand Built Stoneware Clay, Glaze and Oxides
14.25” X 23.5” X 19”
I constructed this bowl after exploring the Gold Coast in Australia. The beach was strewn with shells while the sharks prowled just outside of the nets. There is nothing so relaxing as the undulating shapes of shells and the color of sand. You will unwind when collecting items or displaying food in this extra large bowl.
Bonnie Brushwood
Creature, 2018
Hand Built Stoneware Clay, Glaze
Bonnie Brushwood
Passage, 2017
Hand Built Stoneware Clay, Glazed, Three Electric Firings
30" X 10" X 10"
Bonnie Brushwood
Drafted Line
Graphite, Washes, Hand Built Raku, Three Electric Firings
18" X 9.25" x 8.5"
Bonnie Brushwood
Embrace, 2018
Stoneware Clay and glazes
17.5" X 8.5" X 11"
$2500
Bonnie Brushwood
Blithe, 2017
Hand Built Stoneware Clay, Glaze, and Underglaze
15" x 10" x 8.5"
Blithe leans towards simplicity and is as bright and cheerful as her favorite color. This vase is here to make your day better.
Building a vessel such as Blithe involves adding an inch of clay every day for about two weeks. I frequently base these vessels on people in my life, in this case, my mom.
Bonnie Brushwood
Fissure, 2017
Stoneware clay and glazes
23" X 13" X 14"
“Destiny guides our fortunes more favorably than we could have expected. Look there, Sancho Panza, my friend, and see those thirty or so wild giants, with whom I intend to do battle and kill each and all of them, so with their stolen booty we can begin to enrich ourselves. This is nobel, righteous warfare, for it is wonderfully useful to God to have such an evil race wiped from the face of the earth.”
“What giants?” Asked Sancho Panza.
“The ones you can see over there,” answered his master, “with the huge arms, some of which are very nearly two leagues long.”
“Now look, your grace,” said Sancho, “what you see over there aren’t giants, but windmills, and what seems to be arms are just their sails, that go around in the wind and turn the millstone.”
“Obviously,” replied Don Quijote, “you don’t know much about adventures.
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
A whimsical approach to the windmill as seen through the eyes of Don Quixote. It’s a windmill. It’s a giant. It’s effortlessly strolling without concern for it has nothing to fear.
Set this reminder in a prominent place in your work or home and conquer your giants.
Bonnie Brushwood
Marshaled Caliber, 2017
Hand Built Raku, Stoneware glazes and Oxides, Three Electric Firings
23.5" X 24" X 22"
Bonnie Brushwood
Blue Pod With Vine, 2019
Hand Built Stoneware Clay, Glaze and Oxides
18" x 29" x 10"
Bonnie Brushwood
Cached Color, 2017
Hand Built Raku, Layered Washes and Glazes , Three Electric Firings
28.5" X 10.5" X 10.5"
Bonnie Brushwood
Reservoir, 2018
Hand Built Stoneware Clay, Glaze and Oxides
22" x 23" x 11"
Bonnie Brushwood
Sky Blue Pod, 2019
Hand Built Stoneware Clay, Glaze and Oxides
8.5” X 21” X 12.5”
sold
Bonnie Brushwood
Layered Pod, 2019
Hand Built Stoneware Clay, Glaze and Oxides
14.5” X 24” x 15”
Ceramics have become a must have in interior design. As our homes and offices become more streamlined and smooth, people are finding themselves hungry for texture. Satiate your thirst for nature’s elegance with this bowl crafted after the smooth interiors and rough exterior of seed pods.
Bonnie Brushwood
In The Moonlight, 2019
Stoneware clay and glazes
3 Pieces 6.5" X 9.5" X 38" each
Bonnie Brushwood
Barbed Wire Scar With Orange, 2019
Hand Built Stoneware Clay, Glazed
8" X 8" X 27”
I grew up in the country where barbed wire fences could keep cattle in but not a little girl out. I marveled at how the tree that served as a fence post persevered and didn’t pay any mind to the boundary either. The daring orange peeks past the bark like texture. A scar is left from where this vessel formed around barbed wire found discarded on our property. You, too, will break through those arbitrary barriers when surrounding yourself with art and people who challenge you to do the same.
Slip, 2021
Hand Built Porcelain Clay, Glaze and Oxides, Reduction Fired Cone 10
” X ” X ”
This work was completed at the Dougherty Arts Center while I worked as the Established Artist in Residence. I brought some of my sweeping forms to combine with the design concepts taught through Frobel’s teachings with the First Gifts. The research into the first gifts was in conjunction with my presentation on Piet Mondrian, who was a student of the first gifts, as a
