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Mug impressed with walnut leaves glazed in denim blue with black trim. Food and dishwasher safe.
4.25” tall by 4.5” x 3.5” diameter.
I just love taper candles at the dinner table for normal, ordinary nights, especially when daylight savings time kicks in. I’ll light multiple candles at dinnertime for a pizza dinner or a steak dinner. Candles add mystery, ambiance, and a sense of wonder. To that end, I’ve started carrying Big Dipper Wax Works 100% beeswax taper candles in my studio gallery. And, I’ve been making pottery taper candle holders. Bring the light in during dark days.
This candle holder looks more like Mullein leaves than anything else, so that’s what I’m calling it. Candle not included.
2.5” tall by 6” in diameter
This bowl is a trophy piece! In the cameo center is porcelain vine, glazed in my bittersweet glaze combo—red on the leaves and amber over all. In this case, there are also red clay “berry” accents. Two outer rings of iron-oxide-washed church-key pattern delineate the cameo from the frieze. The frieze features three fern impressions in an iron-rich deep amber celadon. The bowl is trimmed in black. Totally one of a kind.
4” deep by 15.75” in diameter
This bowl is a trophy piece! In the cameo center is a peony leaf, surrounded by a wide frame of an intricate geometric point pattern made by individual marks made by a church-key. I dip the whole piece in my black glaze first, then wipe that off, leaving the black in the deepest indentations of the points and in the outlines, stem, and veins of the leaf. In this case, I’ve glazed the whole interior in my moss green celadon, for maximum functionality. You can serve liquids, semi-liquid, or dry stuff in this bowl. But you’ll need a crowd! The close-up shot is to show you the interesting crystalline pattern that came out of this firing.
4” deep by 14.75” in diameter
This is a new glaze treatment for me: painting the leaf impressions with sapphire blue, then glazing the whole in cornflower blue. This rotund urn is impressed with peony leaves, accented with church-key patterns at the base, rim and lid—treated with a red iron oxide wash, and trimmed in black. As a bonus, there’s a little bird perched on the knob. Remember, someday you might want to rest in a beautiful piece.
11” tall by 7.5” in diameter
Wheel thrown stoneware mug in cornflower blue with porcelain vine, black trim. Food and dishwasher safe.
4.5” tall by 4.5” by 3” in diameter
I found myself doing a deep dive into zoomorphic pottery, both ancient and modern. This pig is more modern, as it does have lipstick. Glazed in matte gray with shiny black dots and eyes. Completely useless, except as a desk-friend, or as an M&Ms dispenser.
5.5” tall by 7.5” by 5” in diameter
Wheel thrown stoneware mug impressed with Japanese stilt grass, glazed in moss celadon and black. Food and dishwasher safe.
4.25” tall by 5” by 3.5” in diameter
Tall stoneware bottle impressed with poisonous water hemlock—pick your poison to fill it up! Glazed in moss celadon with red berries and trimmed in black, with red iron oxide on the churchkey pattern. Food safe.
9.25” tall by 4” in diameter
New Prints: Bearing Witness Volume 1
Bearing Witness is the title I chose for a project I began at the beginning of Trump’s second term in office. I kept a field-notes style notebook, in which I recorded what I saw in the natural world around me as well as monitoring the news of our democracy under attack. It was both healing and disturbing to keep up this practice daily, but it was my way of bearing witness to the fragility and beauty of both nature and our political reality.
Often, I found it difficult to choose which bits of the bountiful natural world I wanted to bring attention to in any given period. It was even more difficult to choose which bits of the news to highlight. The juxtaposition is meant to be jarring and thought-provoking.
Each page is packed with information, including the common and Latin names of each species, the date I saw it, and sometimes some notes on the location where I saw it. On the top right are the coordinates of where I was during the period covered; the top left indicates the dates covered, and these vary in length. Also included on each page is the date, source , and authors of the news clips I’ve included.
I followed a few of my own “rules.” I had to “see” or “hear” a species to include it. Wherever possible, I used my own photographs as references for the drawings, but I sometimes had to resort to finding reference images on-line. For the most part, these pages bear witness to the flora and fauna of Albemarle County, Virginia, but I also travelled to Wisconsin and to the UK during the past year. Though the flora and fauna from those pages reflect what I saw in those locations, the news bits stayed focused on what was going in in the U.S. I may have made a few errors in species identification, and for that I apologize.
All images: Copyright 2026 by Suzanne Crane.
11” x 14” giclee print, signed and numbered in an edition of 50, on archival paper.
Jan. 21-23 depicts a chickadee, squirrel, and bluebirds.
Bearing Witness is the title I chose for a project I began at the beginning of Trump’s second term in office. I kept a field-notes style notebook, in which I recorded what I saw in the natural world around me as well as monitoring the news of our democracy under attack. It was both healing and disturbing to keep up this practice daily, but it was my way of bearing witness to the fragility and beauty of both nature and our political reality.
Often, I found it difficult to choose which bits of the bountiful natural world I wanted to bring attention to in any given period. It was even more difficult to choose which bits of the news to highlight. The juxtaposition is meant to be jarring and thought-provoking.
Each page is packed with information, including the common and Latin names of each species, the date I saw it, and sometimes some notes on the location where I saw it. On the top right are the coordinates of where I was during the period covered; the top left indicates the dates covered, and these vary in length. Also included on each page is the date, source , and authors of the news clips I’ve included.
I followed a few of my own “rules.” I had to “see” or “hear” a species to include it. Wherever possible, I used my own photographs as references for the drawings, but I sometimes had to resort to finding reference images on-line. For the most part, these pages bear witness to the flora and fauna of Albemarle County, Virginia, but I also travelled to Wisconsin and to the UK during the past year. Though the flora and fauna from those pages reflect what I saw in those locations, the news bits stayed focused on what was going in in the U.S. I may have made a few errors in species identification, and for that I apologize.
All images: Copyright 2026 by Suzanne Crane.
11” x 14” giclee print, signed and numbered in an edition of 50, on archival paper.
Jan. 21-23 depicts a chickadee, squirrel, and bluebirds.
Bearing Witness is the title I chose for a project I began at the beginning of Trump’s second term in office. I kept a field-notes style notebook, in which I recorded what I saw in the natural world around me as well as monitoring the news of our democracy under attack. It was both healing and disturbing to keep up this practice daily, but it was my way of bearing witness to the fragility and beauty of both nature and our political reality.
Often, I found it difficult to choose which bits of the bountiful natural world I wanted to bring attention to in any given period. It was even more difficult to choose which bits of the news to highlight. The juxtaposition is meant to be jarring and thought-provoking.
Each page is packed with information, including the common and Latin names of each species, the date I saw it, and sometimes some notes on the location where I saw it. On the top right are the coordinates of where I was during the period covered; the top left indicates the dates covered, and these vary in length. Also included on each page is the date, source , and authors of the news clips I’ve included.
I followed a few of my own “rules.” I had to “see” or “hear” a species to include it. Wherever possible, I used my own photographs as references for the drawings, but I sometimes had to resort to finding reference images on-line. For the most part, these pages bear witness to the flora and fauna of Albemarle County, Virginia, but I also travelled to Wisconsin and to the UK during the past year. Though the flora and fauna from those pages reflect what I saw in those locations, the news bits stayed focused on what was going in in the U.S. I may have made a few errors in species identification, and for that I apologize.
All images: Copyright 2026 by Suzanne Crane.
11” x 14” giclee print, signed and numbered in an edition of 50, on archival paper.
Jan. 21-23 depicts a ruby-crowned kinglet, tufted titmouse, and bluejays.
Bearing Witness is the title I chose for a project I began at the beginning of Trump’s second term in office. I kept a field-notes style notebook, in which I recorded what I saw in the natural world around me as well as monitoring the news of our democracy under attack. It was both healing and disturbing to keep up this practice daily, but it was my way of bearing witness to the fragility and beauty of both nature and our political reality.
Often, I found it difficult to choose which bits of the bountiful natural world I wanted to bring attention to in any given period. It was even more difficult to choose which bits of the news to highlight. The juxtaposition is meant to be jarring and thought-provoking.
Each page is packed with information, including the common and Latin names of each species, the date I saw it, and sometimes some notes on the location where I saw it. On the top right are the coordinates of where I was during the period covered; the top left indicates the dates covered, and these vary in length. Also included on each page is the date, source , and authors of the news clips I’ve included.
I followed a few of my own “rules.” I had to “see” or “hear” a species to include it. Wherever possible, I used my own photographs as references for the drawings, but I sometimes had to resort to finding reference images on-line. For the most part, these pages bear witness to the flora and fauna of Albemarle County, Virginia, but I also travelled to Wisconsin and to the UK during the past year. Though the flora and fauna from those pages reflect what I saw in those locations, the news bits stayed focused on what was going in in the U.S. I may have made a few errors in species identification, and for that I apologize.
All images: Copyright 2026 by Suzanne Crane.
11” x 14” giclee print, signed and numbered in an edition of 50, on archival paper.
Jan 31-Feb 2, 2025 depicts a white-tailed deer, and white-throated sparrow, a chipping sparrow, and rhododendron
Bearing Witness is the title I chose for a project I began at the beginning of Trump’s second term in office. I kept a field-notes style notebook, in which I recorded what I saw in the natural world around me as well as monitoring the news of our democracy under attack. It was both healing and disturbing to keep up this practice daily, but it was my way of bearing witness to the fragility and beauty of both nature and our political reality.
Often, I found it difficult to choose which bits of the bountiful natural world I wanted to bring attention to in any given period. It was even more difficult to choose which bits of the news to highlight. The juxtaposition is meant to be jarring and thought-provoking.
Each page is packed with information, including the common and Latin names of each species, the date I saw it, and sometimes some notes on the location where I saw it. On the top right are the coordinates of where I was during the period covered; the top left indicates the dates covered, and these vary in length. Also included on each page is the date, source , and authors of the news clips I’ve included.
I followed a few of my own “rules.” I had to “see” or “hear” a species to include it. Wherever possible, I used my own photographs as references for the drawings, but I sometimes had to resort to finding reference images on-line. For the most part, these pages bear witness to the flora and fauna of Albemarle County, Virginia, but I also travelled to Wisconsin and to the UK during the past year. Though the flora and fauna from those pages reflect what I saw in those locations, the news bits stayed focused on what was going in in the U.S. I may have made a few errors in species identification, and for that I apologize.
All images: Copyright 2026 by Suzanne Crane.
11” x 14” giclee print, signed and numbered in an edition of 50, on archival paper.
Feb 3-5, 2025 depicts a great blue heron, a Carolina wren, and Virginia pine
Bearing Witness is the title I chose for a project I began at the beginning of Trump’s second term in office. I kept a field-notes style notebook, in which I recorded what I saw in the natural world around me as well as monitoring the news of our democracy under attack. It was both healing and disturbing to keep up this practice daily, but it was my way of bearing witness to the fragility and beauty of both nature and our political reality.
Often, I found it difficult to choose which bits of the bountiful natural world I wanted to bring attention to in any given period. It was even more difficult to choose which bits of the news to highlight. The juxtaposition is meant to be jarring and thought-provoking.
Each page is packed with information, including the common and Latin names of each species, the date I saw it, and sometimes some notes on the location where I saw it. On the top right are the coordinates of where I was during the period covered; the top left indicates the dates covered, and these vary in length. Also included on each page is the date, source , and authors of the news clips I’ve included.
I followed a few of my own “rules.” I had to “see” or “hear” a species to include it. Wherever possible, I used my own photographs as references for the drawings, but I sometimes had to resort to finding reference images on-line. For the most part, these pages bear witness to the flora and fauna of Albemarle County, Virginia, but I also travelled to Wisconsin and to the UK during the past year. Though the flora and fauna from those pages reflect what I saw in those locations, the news bits stayed focused on what was going in in the U.S. I may have made a few errors in species identification, and for that I apologize.
All images: Copyright 2026 by Suzanne Crane.
11” x 14” giclee print, signed and numbered in an edition of 50, on archival paper.
Feb 6-8, 2025 depicts a Northern cardinal, a dark-eyed junco, and cedar waxwings
Bearing Witness is the title I chose for a project I began at the beginning of Trump’s second term in office. I kept a field-notes style notebook, in which I recorded what I saw in the natural world around me as well as monitoring the news of our democracy under attack. It was both healing and disturbing to keep up this practice daily, but it was my way of bearing witness to the fragility and beauty of both nature and our political reality.
Often, I found it difficult to choose which bits of the bountiful natural world I wanted to bring attention to in any given period. It was even more difficult to choose which bits of the news to highlight. The juxtaposition is meant to be jarring and thought-provoking.
Each page is packed with information, including the common and Latin names of each species, the date I saw it, and sometimes some notes on the location where I saw it. On the top right are the coordinates of where I was during the period covered; the top left indicates the dates covered, and these vary in length. Also included on each page is the date, source , and authors of the news clips I’ve included.
I followed a few of my own “rules.” I had to “see” or “hear” a species to include it. Wherever possible, I used my own photographs as references for the drawings, but I sometimes had to resort to finding reference images on-line. For the most part, these pages bear witness to the flora and fauna of Albemarle County, Virginia, but I also travelled to Wisconsin and to the UK during the past year. Though the flora and fauna from those pages reflect what I saw in those locations, the news bits stayed focused on what was going in in the U.S. I may have made a few errors in species identification, and for that I apologize.
All images: Copyright 2026 by Suzanne Crane.
11” x 14” giclee print, signed and numbered in an edition of 50, on archival paper.
Feb 9-11, 2025 depicts a hairy woodpecker and an Eastern cottontail
Bearing Witness is the title I chose for a project I began at the beginning of Trump’s second term in office. I kept a field-notes style notebook, in which I recorded what I saw in the natural world around me as well as monitoring the news of our democracy under attack. It was both healing and disturbing to keep up this practice daily, but it was my way of bearing witness to the fragility and beauty of both nature and our political reality.
Often, I found it difficult to choose which bits of the bountiful natural world I wanted to bring attention to in any given period. It was even more difficult to choose which bits of the news to highlight. The juxtaposition is meant to be jarring and thought-provoking.
Each page is packed with information, including the common and Latin names of each species, the date I saw it, and sometimes some notes on the location where I saw it. On the top right are the coordinates of where I was during the period covered; the top left indicates the dates covered, and these vary in length. Also included on each page is the date, source , and authors of the news clips I’ve included.
I followed a few of my own “rules.” I had to “see” or “hear” a species to include it. Wherever possible, I used my own photographs as references for the drawings, but I sometimes had to resort to finding reference images on-line. For the most part, these pages bear witness to the flora and fauna of Albemarle County, Virginia, but I also travelled to Wisconsin and to the UK during the past year. Though the flora and fauna from those pages reflect what I saw in those locations, the news bits stayed focused on what was going in in the U.S. I may have made a few errors in species identification, and for that I apologize.
All images: Copyright 2026 by Suzanne Crane.
11” x 14” giclee print, signed and numbered in an edition of 50, on archival paper.
Feb 12-17, 2025 depicts a Virginia opossum, a North American river otter, and a brown thrasher
Chamber taper candle holder in moss celadon with sulphur cosmos leaf impression. I’m just one of those people who has to bring the light inside once daylight savings time hits. One of the ways to do that is to light candles at dinner time, no matter what is served. To that end, I’ve been making taper candle holders. I hope you start a tradition of lighting candles over hot dogs or pizza or something exquisite!
3” tall by 5” diameter