September 2013 – Steven Colby: potter

monday morning tea

matcha w/ nancy barbour stoneware bowl - 9.30.2o13 — matcha w/ nancy barbour stoneware bowl – 9.30.2o13

i’ve been fixed on this powdered green tea for the past few months – it is good and good for you. thru the summer weather i’ve been drinking it cool or room temp by shaking it up real good in a juice bottle. for these chilly autumn mornings it’s nice to go hot.

for whatever reason – i’ve been putting off buying a proper chasen (bamboo matcha wisk) – i’m sure to settle on one soon.

in the present i am using this wonderful spoon that was made for me by Rodney at Penland in the Spring of 2oo5.

the stoneware bowl is a simple beauty made by former Carbondale potter, Nancy Barbour, who has just taken the helm at Mendicino Arts Center.

if you click and expand the photo above – you can see a green dragon rising from the bowl – or that may just be me…

it’s off-season, Charlie Brown…

Somehow October has found our heels. The Roaring Fork Valley is giving us Indian Summer, Autumnal perfection & Winter is Here – weather – all at the same time. Which is nice…

We refer to this time of year as the off-season in this part of the world. The Farmers’ Market is coming to an end, we’re putting the H/M Gallery to bed for a bit and there are a few more windows for me to get into the studio for a stretch. Lots of pottery in the hopper.

Of course the ‘things to do in the off-season’ list has been growing since July – so we’ll see how all that goes.

Wassily Kandinsky - concerning the Spiritual in Art

monday morning tea

i’ve been off the bean for a bit now and really enjoying my tea time. this morning it was a nice Tieguanyin with an YiXing teapot from Strange Imports (that i’ve been test driving) and a nice Warren M. teabowl that is dear to me. the basin is a rough little bowl i made at the Bray last summer which keeps growing on me…

+ some yoga&jazz