HEALING AS A CREATIVE PROCESS - workshop with Pat Pendleton at the C.G. Jung Center of Buffalo - Starts September 5, 2012 - Register online at www.apswny.com

Pat Pendleton Arts at www.patpendleton.artspan.com (original painting and mixed media works) - ARCHIVAL-QUALITY GICLEE PRINTS AND POSTERS WITH MANY FRAMING OPTIONS...

Click box for link to slidehow of ARTSPACE exhibition: CURIOUS EVIDENCE Survey of Pat Pendleton - Mixed Media Works 1982-2012

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DOOR WINDOW: the way in - the way out

My new Blurb book, a meditation on passageways--30 pages with 25 original photographs of doors and windows from various US and European locations...

DOOR WINDOW:
the way in - the way out by Pat Pendleton | Make Your Own Book

THE CRACKED CUP: curious evidence

My first Blurb book, a meditation on imagination--80 pages with 50 images of object, image, word--original painting, drawing, and photography with text....

The Cracked Cup by Pat Pendleton | Make Your Own Book

Story Behind The Cracked Cup

During the early 1970s I became interested in ceramics and the wood-firing technique called raku, known for an appearance of blackened the clay and crackled glaze. I was fortunate to attend an art retreat taught by Toshiko Takaezu at Big Creek Pottery in Big Sur. Quite elderly now, back then she was already well known for her globular raku pots.

I had been working as a waitress in San Francisco and choosing to attend this wokshop meant a lot to me. I took a bus to join the small group of potters gathered to share meals and talks with this soft-spoken woman for a whole weekend.

I returned home with this small white cup brushed with a ring of aqua ringed and a new experience to ponder. I have packed and unpacked the cup twenty times during various moves. Last spring photographed it on a stone driveway. The image of the raku cup came alive for me as a treasure that sparked the title of a monthly column on health and my recent book.

I stopped using it for tea long ago when I noticed cracks deepening. At times, I have filled it with sand to use for burning incense. Right now, it is filled with small stainless steel stones etched with promising words...courage, thank you, love, hope, healing.