Pamela Rodger Planter Teal Blue Porcelain Bragg Creek AB 4.5" Canadian Pottery

**Pen in last photo not included** Beautiful, likely one-of-a-kind piece made by potter Pamela Rodger out of Bragg Creek, Alberta. She has been a potter since the 1970s and continues her stunning work today.  This planter Measures approximately 3"H x 4 1/2" W.  There is a small area on the bottom that looks cracked. Pamela explains on her website:  "Porcelain is a white, hard, smooth, dense clay. Building with porcelain requires careful timing + even drying. But I can use the tricky properties of porcelain to stress + crack it. This leaves organic, crack patterns on the surface. Once the piece of porcelain has soft edges and a drier centre, I use a rolling pin to thin + flatten it. This is the point that the cracks appear. The next stage of drying is crucial. Uneven drying may cause the deeper cracks to split the piece open. That may make it interesting, but not functional. Once the piece is totally dry, it goes into the kiln for the bisque stage. After that, I paint a solution of water and red iron oxide or cobalt + manganese onto the porous clay body. I sponge the excess off, until the mineral deposit remains only in the cracks. Then I apply brush strokes of wax resist onto the textured surface, before glazing + airbrushing the colors on. The piece is fired in a kiln to 2,355 degrees F. The unglazed porcelain areas naturally produce a thin glaze on it, from the silica in the clay body. Use it like any other piece of pottery."