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Like a Great Camp craftsman using local materials to celebrate the wilderness, Shrope mixes his glazes
and sJips from the parkt most abundant resource: the rockbeneath his feet.
Since he began throwing pottery as an apprentice in the 1970s, the 58-year-old museum-exhib-it designer sought ways to use supplies at hand-scrap wood for his kiln when he lived near NewHampshire sawmills or clay from his Baltimore backyard. But once he moved to Rainbow Lake, in2002, finding a loca1 connection for his art was more difficult. That is, until he looked at a chemicalanalysis of native conglomerate anorthosite and discovered the roclis makeup was similar to manyof the elements already in his glaze cabinet.
From there it was just a matter of experimenting with different formulas of the fineiy crushedand sifted stone, mixed with stabilizing agents and colorants, to achieve a varied palette. (By it-sell the iron in anorthosite lends a yellowish cast, a hue Shrope calls Adirondack Khaki.) Theresults now coat a signature line of stoneware mugs, bowls and other dishes, as weli as one-of-a-
kind molded tiles.Shrope's work, which ranges from $20 for a coflee cup to $125
and up for decorative tiles and other art pieces, is available at North-Wind Fine futs, in Saranac Lake; the AdirondackMuseum, in BlueMountain Lake; and the Wild Center, in Tirpper Lake.
Although much of his output is fashioned for everyday use andfired in an electric kiln for consistency, Shrope prefers the show-pieces, like an orb vase that mimics the granite of the peaks aroundhis home. His mugs maybe popular, he says, but they're'just a smallpart of a bigger story."
For more information or to purchase Adirondack Rockware see
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