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Thanks for visiting our site. We like to think of this home page as a visit with us, where we let you know what has been going on in our lives and our work. Autumn is fast approaching and we have had a great summer,
both in and out of the studio. We have been working on many new ideas, and there are always more brewing! Below are some photos of work in progress, our backyard paradise, and some of the beautiful bounty from our plot at the local community garden.
Noah Beytin, our new assistant.
ITALY! May/June, 2008. We had a fantastic Adventure in Italy!
We traveled alone for two weeks walking miles every day. Went to Rome, Florence, Venice and Cinque Terre, and then hooked up with a group of other potters in Siena to go to Volterra, in Tuscany, where we rented a villa for a week. What a week it was. Traveling to small towns, visiting museums together, cooking, eating and drinking chianti! There were eleven of us, and we felt so fortunate to have been invited to participate in this great adventure with a group of favorite potters and friends from all across the country. Let us have a toast to clay, which brought us all together.
Here we are in Colle Val d’Elsa, a beautiful little town. Going around the table
from the left: Gail Kendall, Mary Law, Josephine Rand, Jim Newlin, Silvie Granatelli, Suze Lindsay, Kent McLaughlin, Malcolm Davis, Clary Illian and us.
This is a photo of one of the rooms at the Etruscan Museum in Volterra, which houses an amazing collection of Etruscan art and POTS!
This is Manarola, one of the villages in Cinque Terre which means “Five Lands.”
There are five villages all along the Lagurian Coast and you can hike from village to village along the coastline. It was breathtaking and we had beautiful weather.
This is us stopping to take in the view on one of our hikes to the villages.
Murano - This is a paradise if you are a glass artist. There are glass furnaces and shops all over Murano which is a short vaporetto ride from Venice. The Glass Museum was filled with amazing work including many glass pots. These next couple of photos are of some of the public art on Murano.
We loved this giant abacus…they are giant beads!
Burano - Catch another vaporetto (boat bus) to Burano which is where they make lace by hand. A beautiful and very colorful little island.
Thanks for checking in and taking the time to indulge with us about our trip. We are filled with much inspiration from all of the pots, architecture, windows, doors, textures, food and drink. Look for new work from both of us. We were very ready to get our hands back in clay and filter through all of our new ideas for pots. Keep checking in to see what happens with our work. Ciao!
We are constantly adding new information and images here so please keep checking in for updates. As always, you can contact us at pots@sandiandneil.com if you have any questions about our work or the classes and workshops we offer.