2 Bowls typical of the bowls project by R. Rowland, Doug Shadbolt. In foreground is my small effort made of 20% local materials in the clay body and 50% local clay in the glaze.











My tea pot, ceramic bird and wolf

to RAIN Mag.
charcoal drawing of old growth spreading cypress
found on the Long Beach Peninsula, WA

recent water color of North Head Light house, Ilwaco, WA (graveyard of the Pacific.

I have been SO busy! Have taken another quarter of ceramics at Clatsop Community College in Astoria, OR. The advanced members of the class were deeply involve in making bowls for the Women's Bowls Project benefit held yearly. The exacting standards of pottery master R. Rowland is evident in each and every bowl. see photo.

In addition two of my 3 submissions to RAIN Magazine published by the college were accepted, a woodcut print and a charcoal drawing: see attached. There will be an opening reading and art display on the evening of May 26, a Thursday, from 6-9.

On the Long Beach Peninsula at the Ilwaco Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum the 6 Annual Oysters & Art auction will take place on Saturday eve, 9-5, April 2, 2011. I have 3 items available to the highest bidder, a bowl, an acrylic painting of oyster shells and something else, I forget, perhaps a print of the Mechanical Pear.

Thank You for taking an interest! B. Martin