Southwest
In January of 2024, my wife and I visited southern Utah for a ceramics conference. I attempted to capture some of the landscape in my sketchbook. This was my first successful attempt at evoking it. This piece was thrown from studio reclaim with a bit of T2 added for color. The lines are created using vinyl detailing tape as resist, following by layered masks to allow me to glaze sections independently. The liner and outside are va clear glaze, the clouds jt shino, and the base iron red, fired to cone 10.
Contact the artist: scott.hess@gmail.com
Or see the artist’s website: pottery.scott-hess.com/
Width: 6in
Depth: 5in
Scott Hess
After retiring from software engineering, I decided to take some classes at Foothill. I picked two subjects that I enjoyed in college, Calculus and Ceramics. I quite enjoyed both classes, but I quickly noticed that I arrived early and stayed late for pottery. I love the way that pieces magically form on the wheel. A few years back I started focusing on mugs, because I feel that the form wants to be handled and admired and used. That in turn allows me to feel comfortable investing more effort into planning and execution of designs, which exercises my engineering mind in concert with my artistic mind.
Email: scott.hess@gmail.com
Website: pottery.scott-hess.com/
Instagram: dscotthess
