Glen MacInnis Studio

08/23/2026

#3 - The Bowers installation is unusual because it can be viewed from many different angles, including vertically, because it's near stairs. Most sea turtle sculptures are stiffies, but they're much more flexible than you would imagine, so I gave this one some dance moves. It will look totally different from various angles.

08/10/2026

From the Bowers File;

Double divers down.

08/06/2026

I'm not there, but there's still a fair, and it has been so for 93 years. The League of NH Craftsmen's Fair runs until Sunday. This is Kelly when she purchased "Overfed Ned" in 2006, then many years later, with "Underfed Ed". She was a good sport to pose in the exact same position

After retiring, I miss seeing my collectors every year, along with their children and grandchildren, for decades.

08/04/2026

Here's what's happening behind the scenes on the Bowers project. We're trying to hang an installation with challenging structural aspects, using paper mock-ups of the walls and angles.

08/02/2026

In the beginning...

07/29/2026

After a stunning encounter with thousands of Monarchs on the western migration corridor at Big Sir, I incorporated Monarchs into my pottery for decades. After learning that monarchs and sea turtles use the same migration navigation technique, sensing variations in the Earth's crust magnetic field, I convinced fellow potter Stephanie Young to do a collaboration that I consider our most interesting.

06/29/2026

Lydia got some fabulous flashing in the 5th firing of the NH Potter's Guild Nakamagama. Al explained that they stalled it between cone 10 and 14 and fired it for an additional 40 hours. Obviously, it worked. Lydia explained her Japanese rope decoration technique. However, she used a Swiss curtain pull. I don't know how a pot could turn out any better.

05/27/2026

Today's firing;

Recently, several different diving clients have commented separately about how my early turtles from 30 years ago are glazed in a way that emulates natural, low-light conditions.

In that spirit, I one-handedly gimp-glazed this bale with a new glaze color combo and application.

Thrown and altered white stoneware, Cone ten OX.

05/08/2026

An Antikyathra Octopot, the largest wall hanging loggerhead I ever made, a giant Mola Mola, and an octopus riding a sea turtle (a ridiculous idea I dismissed for decades, until someone sent me a video of the actual occurrence). These are a few of my favorite things. I don't have cats anymore, but I'm still fond of whiskers on kittens, as Julie Andrews once said. Maybe someone will bring one by. https://www.google.com/search?q=antikythera%20mechanism.

05/01/2026