Ron Slagle Studio

     Woodfiring and Anagama kilns have become a valued avenue of creating for my pottery, sculpture, and experimentation.   In the pass years I have produced work using a single chambered kiln, designed by Will Ruggles.  Several of the kilns have been built around the area , with everyone reporting excellent results in firing and surface effects.  I combine the flashing effects with salt added to the firing to yeild a little shine to the surface.  
                                                                 

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tall figure

Digital image by Mary Vogel
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             I have selected work that reflects the interest and directions that  I have recently ventured.   I'm very excited with the new work and the opportunity to explore into the forms and imagery of my youth in clay.   I have produced and worked in clay for almost 4 decades and I still love to throw on the wheel and play in the mud. 
        Hand building pieces have become a favorite mode of play recently.  Influences that continually spark  my interest  come from those  items  that  reflect  simple  clean  visions:   a Peruvian effigy pot , unadorned water pots made with coils of clay in the sands of Africa, bizen ware made from seemingly impossible clay to work, yet yielding jars that survive centuries with such nobility that they are prized around the world and then simple bowls that cup in my hand with a natural afinity for foods and drink.   I like to breech that imagined line between "Art and Utility", a guinomi can be a drinking vessel or the reflection of the skill and thoughtfulness of it's designer.   An effigy po
t exhibits elements of a sculptural form, and serves  as a food vessel or carries the spirit of the dead on it's long journey.
                 
 
reclined nude
Reclined female
  lake
Canadian Sunset
Head
              
                POTTERS OF THE ROAN  is an organization of clay artist who have gathered their resources together to share information, education & skills to promote our             businesses as clay artist.
                PENLAND SCHOOL is a major link for a lot of the artist who have made their home in the shadows of Mt. Mitchell and the Roan
               
MITCHELL COUNTY is a wonderful destination location to start your vacation or visit to find unique collectibles, gifts of clay, glass, fiber, metal and natural materials that have been formed  from the imagination of skilled craft artisans.

heyman painting
dancer
      
              prone figure
                                                              Image by ron                                                                                             Image by ron