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One of a kind lamp impressed with pokeweed, glazed in moss celadon, accented with red clay berries. Red iron oxide wash on the church-key pattern at shoulder and base. The octagonal mica shade features pepper tree leaves, a subtle green tissue and piping made-to-match my glazes by Sue Johnson Lamps and Shades out of Berkeley, CA.
20.5” tall to the tip of the finial. The base of the shade is 19” diameter. The base alone is 10” x 7.5”.
If you’re interested in the lamp, but not the shade, give me a call—434-962-8762 for pricing and options.
One of a kind lamp impressed with dogwood leaves, glazed in light amber celadon, accented with red clay berries. Red iron oxide wash on the church-key pattern at shoulder and base. The octagonal mica shade features maidenhair fern fronds, and piping made-to-match my glazes by Sue Johnson Lamps and Shades out of Berkeley, CA.
22” tall to the tip of the finial. The base of the shade is 19” diameter. The base alone is 10.5” x 7.5”.
If you’re interested in the lamp, but not the shade, give me a call—434-962-8762 for pricing and options.
One of a kind lamp impressed with porcelain vine, glazed in moss celadon, accented with red clay berries. Red iron oxide wash on the church-key pattern at shoulder and base. The octagonal mica shade features pepper tree leaves, a subtle green tissue and piping made-to-match my glazes by Sue Johnson Lamps and Shades out of Berkeley, CA.
20. tall to the tip of the finial. The base of the shade is 19” diameter. The base alone is 9” x 7”.
If you’re interested in the lamp, but not the shade, give me a call—434-962-8762 for pricing and options.
My neighbor Betsy’s beech grove inspired this lamp, impressed with beech branches and leaves. I call this glaze combo “singing the blues,” as it’s a combination of sapphire blue on the leaves with three coats of light blue celadon over all. The church-key pattern at shoulder and base is glazed in a textured blue. The mica shade features skeleton leaves, and was made-to-order for me by Sue Johnson Lamps and Shades out of Berkeley, CA.
20.5” tall to the tip of the finial. The base of the shade is 18” diameter. The base alone is 10” x 7.5”.
If you’re interested in the lamp, but not the shade, give me a call—434-962-8762 for pricing and options.
One of the final pieces I made with my last supply of Ellen Buff clay. A table lamp impressed with porcelain vine, glazed in amber celadon and accented with red clay “berries.” The octagonal mica shade has dried maiden hair fern decoupaged on its inside surface. Shade made-to-order for me by Sue Johnson Lamps and Shades. This is the LAST mica shade I have in stock!
21.5” tall to the tip of the finial. The base of the shade is 18” diameter. The base alone is 11” x 9”.
If you’re interested in the lamp, but not the shade, give me a call—434-962-8762 for pricing and options.
An elegant table lamp impressed with pokeweed and glazed in moss celadon, accented with red clay berries. Red iron oxide wash on the church-key pattern at shoulder and base. The mica shade features skeleton leaves, and was made-to-order for me by Sue Johnson Lamps and Shades out of Berkeley, CA.
20” tall to the tip of the finial. The base of the shade is 18” diameter. The base alone is 9” x 7”.
If you’re interested in the lamp, but not the shade, give me a call—434-962-8762 for pricing and options.
My Bearing Witness book is printed in 9” x 12” format, so all of the images will be just about the same size as my notebook pages. There are 64 full-color pages, plus an introduction, list of the 212 species included, and the URLs for all of the news sources I quoted. For the price of ONE of my 11×14 signed and numbered giclee prints, you can have a book holding all of them! I know it seems expensive, but self-publishing a signed edition of 100 copies isn’t cheap. I hope you’ll see the value of holding the whole project in your hands at once. And then, if you fall in love with any of the particular pages, you can order a fine art print for your wall.
The first 100 copies are limited-edition, signed and numbered. 140 pages, perfect bound, full color.
You can have this shipped or come to Mud Dauber Pottery to pick up your copy.
This big, tall bowl with handles is a shape I used to make often. My mother serves salads out of hers, and others have served pasta or soups. It would also make a lovely planter for orchids and ferns. This one features my new Bittersweet glaze combination of red leaves over dark amber. The botanical here is privet. The interior is glazed in black, then coated with Cosmic Tea Dust glaze for added sparkle. (There are four small tall Bittersweet bowls that would match it beautifully if you’d like to make a set.)
7.25” tall by 8” diameter
I decided to elevate 9 insects that we humans DO NOT LIKE in a series of 8” square acrylic paintings on canvas a few years back. I painted the bugs on a gold gilded background. That set of 9 paintings sold last year to a wonderful man who wanted to surprise his wife, who had admired them at the annual Studio Tour event. But I just couldn’t let them go, so I’ve immortalized 8 of those BAD BUGS in a set of cocktail napkins. 2 each of 8 bugs included in each pack: Spotted Lanternfly, Brown Marmorated Stink Bug, Botfly, Potato Beetle, Asian Tiger Mosquito, Asian Lady Beetle, Gypsy Moth, and Asian Longhorn Beetle.
Every set of 16 napkins includes a lovely cork coaster with a reproduction of my portrait of a European Hornet from my Bearing Witness field notes!!!
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
My son was so taken with the first nesting wren bowl that I made that he forbade me to sell it. So I’ve made four more to share with you. Each is sculpturally unique, but glazed in the same “autumn spice”, “unicorn horn” on the breast, and “cedar shino” on the rim. The interior is a mottled blue meant to evoke the color of robin’s eggs (even though the bird sitting atop the bowl/nest is supposed to be a wren. Go figure. Don’t know what you’re going to do with these bowls, but they are delightful.
Approx: 6-7” tall by 6-7” in diameter.