As a rule, each summer session at Watershed includes a guest artist, and this session we are lucky to be joined by hisband and wife team Richard Shaw and Martha Shaw.  Currently a professor in Art Practice at the University of California, Berkley, Richard Shaw is widely recognized for his trompe l’oiel sculpture.  Here he is working on throwing a large clay form, to be used in making a plaster mold.

Martha Shaw has a background in Printmaking.  She received her degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1965, and has many exhibitions to her credit.  Recently the two artists have begun to work in collaboration with each other, and pictured here is their work, House and Skull, 2006, porcelain with decal overglaze.

Both artists are a joy to work with in the studio; and it is wonderful to see and hear the subtle exchange of ideas that occurs between them as they work.  I look forward to spending time alongside them in the days to come.