My work is rooted in utilitarian and decorative pottery. I am interested in working with various clays, such as earthenware, porcelain, and stoneware.
For over 50 years Sunflower Pottery has been inspired by Iowa’s landscape, wild life and serenity. The pottery is designed, thrown and shaped by hand, sprayed with glaze and fired at a high temp.
Allison Fretheim Ceramics are created individually using the potter’s wheel and hand building techniques with white earthenware. Each piece is carved and inlayed with black slip, and finished with gold.
Years of technique culminate on a pottery wheel. Glazed in proprietary recipes and electric fired.
Earthenware pottery with red clay, white slip, underglazes, and a clear gloss glaze. Marbled monoprints use ceramic oil-based paint and computer-generated paper cuts as a relief image.
Ceramic vessels are wheel thrown, altered, slip decorated, glazed and fired to cone 10 reduction.
I am primarily a functional potter. I am using mid-range stoneware clay and glazes that I have formulated to compliment my forms in an oxidation firing environment.
