Potter Darren Emenau has a great appreciation for natural beauty; it shows in his current exhibition at Gallery 78 in Fredericton.

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On potter Darren Emenau's website is a picture of glorious mud. It glistens and beckons, a lustrous brown. Emenau is a true appreciator of it and digs it up close to his creek-side home outside Browns Flat so he can turn it into something completely breath-taking; but something that isn't too far from its muddy origins.

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Detail of ‘Little Emperor.’

‘Little Emperor,’ cone 05 local stoneware, 2008.

‘Jaguar Tea pot’ 2008

"It is my intention to sustain the essence of the pre-fired fluid quality of the clay," he writes.

The pottery featured in his current exhibition 'From the Earth' at Gallery 78 in Fredericton looks like what you might find on a walk through New Brunswick woods. One plate reminds you of a curled slab of bark; another pot stands and ages like a tree stump.

The exhibition opened earlier this month and continues until Oct. 26.

Emenau has been creating ceramic work since he graduated from the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design in Fredericton in 1997.

- Telegraph-Journal