Esther Griffith's Art

Ceramic bottle set

Available on etsy

New piece available here :)

The kiln was down for awhile so I had to find an alternative method to fire. I went to Sardia all the way down south -_-

Anyway, good things came out of this last firing. More to come…

storyboard:

Wall Dogs: The Midair Muralists Who Paint New York

It’s 8am in Soho, the thermometer reads just above freezing, and the sky is bleak. Taxis splash down the streets; New Yorkers stride with their heads down, leaping over puddles, carelessly bumping into each other. Everyone wants to get out of the cold, out of the rain, into the warmth.

Ten stories above — on a long, skinny platform hanging from the facade of a building at Canal and Mercer in downtown Manhattan — it’s a different story. Climbers’ ropes secured around their torsos, Jason Coatney and Armando Balmaceda stand in a melange of open paint cans and brushes. These two muralists of Colossal Media, the largest hand-painted advertising company in America, are heavily layered in sweatshirts and raincoats. But in this industry, c’est la vie. Paintbrushes in their fingerless-gloved hands, earbuds in their ears — “I like to start out with Miles Davis in the morning,” Coatney smiles, his breath visible in the frigid air — they begin yet another workday in the sky.

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My latest pieces are now available on my etsy store.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/EstherGriffith

Take a look, you may find something you like :) 

This latest body of work is really inspiring me to get into sculpting. I’ve always admired good sculptors, but never felt that I can do it. The bottle in the previous post really inspires me to embark on one sculpted piece. I have the idea already and it’s just to formulate how I’ll do it.  I think it may be hand built out of earthenware. 

New glazed earthenware pieces. I love the direction this is heading in.