Justin Rives
- My wife Cristie sitting outside our backyard studio.
- Jonathan, Ray, my ceramics teacher and myself friring the raku kiln.
- Howard a great friend and teacher.
Cristie's Blog
About Me
I have always had an interest in art. While studying art at Mississippi College, I developed a passion for pottery and photography. The mediums are very different and as a result, they satisfy very different needs. Art for me nurtures a God-given inner need to create. I have always preferred working with traditional photographic materials. I usually process my own black and white films and develop my own prints. I prefer working with medium and large format films due to their ability to be enlarged while maintaining image integrity. I would like to say that my personal aesthetic is sensitively simple and pure. I have found digital photography to be very convenient for travel as well as working with portraits and wedding photography. I have also become addicted to accumulating collector and antique cameras. I enjoy fixing cameras, taking them apart to learning about how they work, and then using them in my own fine art photography. When I become weary with photography, I sit down at the wheel and make some pottery. I enjoy making vessels of all shapes and sizes. Mugs, bowls, vases, teapots, and other creative vessels are all forms that I enjoy making. I usually try to create classically proportioned vessels that have some degree of whimsical flare.