The Alchemist 🇨🇦

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Artist, potter, gardener, lover of trees, frolics in nature, star gazer. Kindness matters. Please join me on my pottery journey ❤️ rakupottery.ca 🏳️‍🌈 He/him, They/them Mi’kma’ki/Eastern Canada

A clay sculpture of a moose on a board with some pottery tools in the foreground.
A sphere glazed in the trans pride colours hanging from an arbor. On the ground you can see a mirror. There are lots of plants in the background, some piled wood and a blue from a building in the background.
Two bags of salad mix from our garden on green grass
A close up of a white cat standin in a ring that makes up part of a weird teapot that is glazed to look like a starry sky.
A small group of ghost pipe flowers among dead leaves on the forest floor. The plant is white and almost translucent.
Closeup of the face of a raku fired cat sculpture with glazing in iridescent blues, purples, reds and metallics. The cat wears a top hat and monocle.
A white dog on a rocky shore/beach. A leash us attached to him. He is wearing a harness and his tongue is sticking out wide.
A closeup on the face of Bambi, a brown, blue, violet, red and metallic textured raku deer sculpture. In the background you can see a couple tree trunk and some of the forest floor and leaves
A sphere suspended in an armillary type structure. The sphere is various shades of blue while the structure is various metallics with reds and blues.
A red, blue, maroon, metallic raku fired sphere on a metallic stand pictured against a white background.
A short video of a raku firing. A deer sculpture is being placed into a reduction bin of combustible materials with tongs.
A glass bowl filled part way with raspberries on a counter.
Felines of antiquity raku vase in full side 2. The vase is shades of reds, browns, purples and coppers with two cat shaped handles and revealed clay on one side of the vase.
A picture taken from the beach where you can see seaside cliffs and different strata in the rocks and very light blue sky with wispy clouds
A raku owl ceramic sculpture with reds, coppers, blues, violets and blacks. Front view
In the background you can see some trees, bushes and sky. You can also see prayer flags and an archway. You can see many pink and red roses, an asphalt path and some pink roses and various plants.
A closeup of the face of a raku pottery skunk. The skunk looks to the viewers right and has reds, blues, golds, and purples.
A closeup on the face of a 'Callisto' brown, blue, violet, red and metallic textured raku bear sculpture.
Brocolli plants in a raised bed.
A raku pottery vase called the 'Dragons of Ara'. The vase is on a white background and has copper, sapphire, emerald, and violet tones shift like a sky that never quite stays still.
Tree branches in the top third of the photo in various greens. In the middle of the photo are some large peony flowers. In the bottom of the photo are yellow and purple violas.
A six panel image in two rows of three with raku pottery. Top Right: a turquoise raku vase called Poseidon's Breath. Top Middle: a white raku polar bear Top Left: a textured raku vase in metallics and reds/purples called Draconis. Bottom Right: a metallic/blue/red raku vase called Celestial Veil. Bottom Middle: a raku owl in vibrant blues and reds, inspired by a nebula. Bottom Left: A shiny multicoloured raku vase called Dragons of Ara.
In the background you can see some blue skies and trees. There is a raised platform with a red chair on it surrounded by lupines and a red peony starting to bloom in the front of the picture.
mugs with blue pink and white glazing representing the trans flag
A close up of a purple crocus surrounded by a background of brown leaves.
A dried out allium flowe from last year caught between some forsythia branches. You can see some dried leaves and green shoots in the background.
A tapered raku vase with blues, reds, purples and greys
A white vessel with a rabbit sculpted on the lid. The lid is shaped like a top hat.
A brown, violet, blue and gold raku bear facing the viewer with the right side in view.
A raku fired kidded vessel/moon jar on a white background. It is various shades of grey with some lines and textures.
A white dog with barely visible fur covered black spots. His eyes are closed and he's snoozing at the end of a bad, laying sideways and his head is blocking most of his body.
A grey cat laying in an oversized dog bed
3 Porcelain mugs with blue, pink and white glazing to represent the trans pride flag.
A smaller raku vase with reds, blues, purples and hints of gold
6 porcelain mugs in a collage. Top right is a grey, blue and white mug with a spiral handle. In top middle is a white and blue mug with drops. Top right is a blue red white and green mug with beautiful white drops of glaze. Bottom left is a white and blue mug with blue drop. Bottom centre is a blue, red, green and white mu g with white drips. Bottom right is a deep blue mug with green explosions that are reminiscent of lichen or moss.
3 handmade mugs with trans flag colours.
A white dog sitting down (part boxer, part mareema sheep dog),his left paw is slightly raised, as he nudges me for a hug.
A 6 image montage of raku pottery work by Alchemy. On the top left is a stout vase with reds, blues and violets. To the right is a teardrop shaped piece in green and red with bubbles. To the far right is a copper coloured vase in a classic shape with greys and browns and glaze peeling. On the bottom row is a bulbous turquoise vase with raku cracks and flecks of gold. In the centre is a gazing orb in coppers, silvers and blues on a pedestal. On the bottom right is a turquoise vase with cracking and bubbles in a classic shape.
A closeup of an iridescent sphere with reds, blues, violets and silvers.
A brown, blue, violet and metallic raku bear sculpture facing right
Felines of antiquity raku vase in full side 1. The vase is shades of reds, browns, purples and coppers with two cat shaped handles and revealed clay on one side of the vase.
An image of a raku fired vase that has a tiered pedestal. It has shimmery irridescent greens, gold, blues reds and violets and some matte black areas from the reduction material.
The same picture of the nebula with the text 'surrender donald'
An image of the monkey head nebula (ngc2175). You can see numerous stars and an orange reddish cloud that some say resembles a monkey head.
A close up of a grey cat wearing a lion hoodie
A raku vase in yellows, reds, blues and purples with an abundance of texture. There is a wave of red running vertically up the side of the vase in view.
A garden bed in front of a green house that includes red bee balm, shasta daisies, tiger lily, black hollyhock and yellow coreopsis.
A snowy landscape. You can see a wooden fence and snow covered branches in the foreground, a small blue building and trees in the background, all snow covered. You can see some blue/white sky.
6 mugs in one image. The first on the top left is blue and has a cat as a handle! The next to the right is intergalactic themed. To the right (and last in the top row) is a brown and blue mug called Spring Moss. In the bottom row, is a blue, red and brown mug with dotted clay. In the middle is another brown and blue mug with a more delicate handle. On the bottom right is a delightfully purple mug made of porcelain.
Dreyers Nebula IC447, which somewhat resembles snow falling in the sky.
A raku vase with a mountain scene on it in greens yellows and coppers with a deep mahogany sky
The reds, blues, greens and golds of raku on a sitting cat sculpture
A tall pink vase with assorted flowers and foliage in it on a small round table against a white background. There are pink, blue and yellow flowers included in the vase along with foliage of reds, yellows, and greens.
The Andromeda Galaxy, M31. You can see a very bright sphere with wisps of subtle colors around it. It is a spiral shaped galaxy.
A white raku pottery polar bear sculpture with distinctive and unique cracks in the glaze, in full, right side.
6 raku vases in a grid with a white background in two rows of three. There is a vase name in black text under each image, from left to, to right bottom, the names are Lagoon Nebula, Draconis, Skyfire, Pinwheel, Persueus'Cloud, Tethy's Tide.
A deep blue owl sculpture with galactic clusters in green, yellow and light blue, reminiscent of nebulae.
Astrophotography. This is an image of M42, the Orion Nebula, which is located in the Milky Way, approximately 1344 light years away.
A photo of the moon where you can see some craters.
A raku fired cat sculpture with glazing in iridescent greens, yellows, reds and blues. The cat wears a top hat and monocle. Front view, full body.