Dori DeCamillis

A few faces from our daylily beds this morning. My husband is promising to name one of his hybrids after me. Can you guess which? 

A sneak through the Red Dot clay studio reveals some exciting pieces in progress.

Fong Choo's weekend demonstration workshop at Red Dot Gallery was a big success. All the participants said it was an "honor to see the master at work" and were eager to put to use the many skills and ideas they learned. We hope to feature more workshops like these in the future. Various teapot handles Satisfied participants. Thrown teapots, ready for firing. Glaze tests

To celebrate the upcoming Mud Dabblers exhibit at Red Dot Gallery here are some photos of fun stuff in the clay studio. Hake Brushes Hanging Tools Reclaim Clay buckets Sponges Carving tools Water buckets

Please join us at Red Dot Gallery for the opening of Mud Dabblers, a student clay exhibit, 5 to 8 pm. Here is a sampling of some of the excellent ceramic work done by Scott Bennett's clay students.

Ceramic piece by Jane Marshall Check out the article in The Homewood Star about upcoming Mud Dabbler exhibit at Red Dot Gallery.

In bloom now: Scott Bennett's daylily that will be named after me if it proves to be a hardy grower. So far it's looking pretty good. I've been waiting 12 years for this! I kept choosing flowers for my namesake, but until this one he declared them unfit. 

My husband, Scott Bennett recently judged a juried exhibition called Single Stem. A collection of bud vases, each designed to showcase a single specific flower, will open this Friday at The Kiln Studio and Gallery in Fairhope, Alabama, from 6 to 9 pm. These are just two samples of the delightful pieces Scott chose.

I passed around my camera to guests at the opening of DECADE, Red Dot's 10th Anniversary student/teacher exhibition. The impromptu photographers came up with a nice portfolio. More to see at my Flickr album.

Scott is making frames for my artwork in his makeshift wood shop: our carport. We're gearing up for DECADE, opening this Saturday at Red Dot. Come see his masterpieces around my artwork. 

My husband, Scott Bennett, has taken up fly fishing and tying flies. He is already very good at making pretty special flies, probably because of his expertise in sculpture-making. This is just a much smaller scale. He usually drives to Tennessee or North Alabama to fish, and spends a good big of leisure time making these mini works of art. Photographing them is just as hard as making the little things, and he's getting better at that, too.

Scott is experimenting with flame cups that involve several layers or painstaking processes. It's a good thing people will pay so much money for cups. Not. (Don't mention it to Scott. You'll never hear the end of it.)

One finds the most interesting tools and implements at the Alabama Clay Conference.