Penny is a ceramic artist who likes to make pottery that people enjoy using. Penny uses several clays and fires to both earthenware and stoneware in either oxidation or reduction. Oxidation gives bright, clear colours while reduction gives rich, unusual colours. Penny mixes her own glazes resulting in individual colours and patterns unique to her work. Most of her work is wheel-thrown with some handbuilt pieces. The bulk of her work is the production of functional domestic ware including a range of bonsai pots and garden pottery. She also makes "One Off" vases, platters and sculptures. Her interest in and knowledge of a wide variety of crafts over the years has given her countless ideas and have been invaluable aids in producing her current work. The need to break away from the exacting routine of her everyday work finds an outlet in her decorative platters and sculptural pieces. These large sculptural works often have unusual themes and are individual and sometimes eccentric. Occasionally, she is able to combine both ideas and come up with very unconventional tableware which is definitely functional but fun to use. Penny finds it satisfying to find good homes for these pieces.
Regarding the handspun yarn and garments, Penny loves the range of textures and colours found in natural fibres and enjoys spinning many different fibres including wool, alpaca, yak, camel, silk and synthetic fibres as well as clients' pet hair. Penny uses mainly alpaca blended with a wide range of fibres. Most of the fleeces come from a property near Goulburn and are all named. Penny enjoys dyeing many of the fleeces before spinning them and this gives an even larger palette of colours to play with. She likes to spin and knit "Wedding Ring" shawls which are so fine they can be pulled through a wedding ring. At present Penny is combining glass and crystal beads in her knitted scarves. All her products come with the name and a photo of the animal who produced the fibre.
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