Special Orders
All the Functional Pottery made at the Firehouse can be special ordered by design or color to match your needs.
Commissions are also available for unique,one of a kind,ceramic pieces
All the Functional Pottery made at the Firehouse can be special ordered by design or color to match your needs.
Commissions are also available for unique,one of a kind,ceramic pieces
Firehouse Gallery
Showing Local Artists, Providing Education & Event Space
Pottery
Keith G.Thomson B.A.Hons.
Artist In Residence
Artist In Residence
Pottery Lessons
Lessons are primarily private or groups by arrangement. Lessons are structured to the individuals interest and can cover a wide range of techniques, including the wheel, hand building, slab building, extruding slip casting, surface decoration and glazing.
Adults and children of all ages are welcome.
All clay, tools and firing of finished work are included in price:- $15 per hour.
Times by arrangement Mon-Fri, including evenings,Sat am.
Home school classes also available.
Please contact Keith Thomson for full details at
682-560-3467 or firehousegalleryfw@sbcglobal.net
Artist's Statement
The first time I touched clay at art school I was drawn to its unlimited potential of design and workability in realizing my creative ideas.
Clay from the earth, water, air and fire are the essential elements which must be harmonized to create a ceramic form. Whether it is a functional bowl, made on the wheel, an abstract sculpture using extrusions, hand built with slabs or cast in a mold, all the basic elements are the same.
The clay needs water to make it workable, air for drying and fire to make it permanent. After that the limitations are only out with your creative imagination. Since working with clay at art school from 1984- 1988 and until now at the Firehouse, I have and continue to create functional ware on the potters wheel, natural and abstract sculptural forms and a combination there of.
The first time I touched clay at art school I was drawn to its unlimited potential of design and workability in realizing my creative ideas.
Clay from the earth, water, air and fire are the essential elements which must be harmonized to create a ceramic form. Whether it is a functional bowl, made on the wheel, an abstract sculpture using extrusions, hand built with slabs or cast in a mold, all the basic elements are the same.
The clay needs water to make it workable, air for drying and fire to make it permanent. After that the limitations are only out with your creative imagination. Since working with clay at art school from 1984- 1988 and until now at the Firehouse, I have and continue to create functional ware on the potters wheel, natural and abstract sculptural forms and a combination there of.
Functional Ceramics 2010
For Sale at the Firehouse
For Sale at the Firehouse
Artistic Ceramics- 2010
For Sale at the Firehouse
For Sale at the Firehouse
