Wholehearted Harvest

“Best is Yet to Come” oil on canvas sprouting oak by Brianna Camp of Fairfax, Va. “Passel Opossums” Chinese brushpainted opossum and joeys among grapes by Tracie Griffith Tso of Reston, Va. Fire On Studio 22 artists a rrive at the most generous season of the year with “Wholehearted Harvest,” an exhibition bringing a gracious cornucopia of one-of-a-kind delights in pottery, glass and painting. Heartfelt and handmade, every piece is an invitation to gather and celebrate. Find originals to spice up a table, frame a culinary masterpiece and add homespun festive touches. Spiraled splatters and handpainted servers upgrade a tablescape from ordinary to occasion. Earthy, rustic forms feel as at home on a Thanksgiving spread as they do on an everyday shelf , mantle or entry table , because beautiful things should be lived with and used. Traditional woodfired, hand-sculpted face jug by Brian Grow of Alexandria, Va. Start the holiday season with a toast in handmade drinkware. Sculpted face jugs, mugs and tumblers offer a warm welcome to the season of gathering. Sips from a handcrafted mug or teacup on a cool November morning is its own small celebration . Offer fruit in vivid kilnformed glass vibration bowls that glow with season al color. Shimmering glass or ceramic tealight holders that cast a warm amber glow on the shortest evenings of the year. A distinctive ikebana vase invites a c reative arrangement of late-season stems, seed pods or the branches from the garden. An oil-on-canvas masterpiece sharing the season’s palette with rich color and quiet, lasting beauty evokes tableside elegance. A natural eco-print brings the outdoors in with silhouetted and shadowy plants set in indigo, offered as greeting cards and wall-hung compositions. Add touches of whimsy with brushpainted pandas on a powder room soap dish, rabbits napping on a vanity tray or cardinals flitting among foliage on a platter or print. Seed pod of possibilities handbuilt in stoneware by Elke Seefeldt…