I’ve provided examples of Anna’s ceramics in seven categories so you can see the range of her artistic accomplishments.

My sister Anna worked in the Chelsea Pottery while she waited for an acting job, but in the end it was the pottery that blossomed into a life-long career. These pages display the full range of her work, which I photographed over several visits to her home, Carliqui (Limoux, France) from 1982-2016. 

Her contribution to my photography began much earlier than that, when I was about 17 or so, in between high school and college, and she took me to Italy on holiday. We visited Herculaneum and Pompeii where we both became fascinated with Roman antiquities (so different from dreaded exercises in Latin at school).  Anna drew on ancient coins for her ceramics, along with other sources which you can explore here..

During my several visits to her home in Limoux, I took photographs not just of her ceramics, but I became fascinated by aspects of nature and architecture, patterns in walls, close-ups of flowers, etc. And the light in France seemed so different from where I lived in upstate New York, so I took advantage of it. In many instances, I would take multiple shots from different angles, not having a clue that they could be combined (and in fact, my cameras couldn't combine them on the fly, and the only post-processing was in iPhoto on my Mac). Now that I can capture multiple images with my Canon R5, and process images in Lightroom and Photoshop, many of these photos are seeing a new life as abstract images.  

Now that I think about it, ceramics themselves have textures and reflections that make ideal subjects for abstract photography, but those features also suggest creating images (or incorporating them as aspects of an image) that extend the range of abstract photography. 

At age 90, Anna passed away after a battling cancer for several years, and I wrote a tribute to her, which also briefly recounts her life history. You can find that tribute here. 

This is a poster I created for my sister to use in exhibitions of her ceramics.