Anyway – I’ve been completely obsessed with glaze chemistry and watermedia. I think about color all the time. One of my most recent inspirations is the work of Gwendolyn Yoppolo. I’m trying to develop some microcrystalline glazes that are soft yet juicy…

A table beside the evening sea
where you sit shelling pistachios,
flicking the next open with the half-
shell of the last, story opening story,
on down to the sandy end of time.

The stars coming out on the life that I call mine

by Theo Dorga

Cezanne

Van Gogh

Gauguin

Rodin

“Making your unknown known is the important thing.”

“Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.”

“Now and then when I get an idea for a picture, I think, how ordinary. Why paint that old rock? Why not go for a walk instead? But then I realise that to someone else it may not seem so ordinary.”

“I don’t see why we ever think of what others think of what we do — no matter who they are. Isn’t it enough just to express yourself?”

“The days you work are the best days.”

- Georgia O’Keefe

“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.”

- Kurt Vonnegut

But I thought that since we are such huge fans of Eilen Jewell I’d post this video: