September 2010
9 posts
Handbuilt Teapot Fundamentals
Aesthetics in craft are wide open: it is up to the individual maker to decide how much or little to draw on traditions or other sources for their style and imagery. What proportions work? What colors enhance the pot? How loose or how tight? How spare or how ornate the surface? How much to please your eye, perhaps versus how much to please your hand or your lip? These are all the prerogative...
fave bowl of the week →
I put a detail up to entice you to go look at the bowl (since I couldn’t translate the website to know where to ask permission to share the image here). Gorgeous thin porcelain, luscious curve, delicate fluting that looks like it grew there.
Take a look: National Cup Show
Barrett Clay’s 2nd National Cup Show is now up and you can see a slideshow of it online, or visit the exhibit’s site here.
Ayumi Horie curated, and shows a penchant for potters who incorporate fine line drawing and critters, or who break away from the smooth confines of unaltered wheelthrown pots.
excellent catalog of contemporary work
Access Ceramics has hundreds of high quality images of current clay work - sculptural and functional - that you can browse easily by artist, surface, temperature, technique, institution, etc. Here’s an image of Lisa Conway’s “Pearl” that knocked my socks off before I had coffee this morning.
This is a well thought out site that, along with AKAR, is making good use of...
“Trading intuition and creativity for something that sells isn’t a good...”
– I found this quote on Minnesota Clay’s site, and I discovered Willem Gebben through Brandon Phillip’s blog Support Your Local Potter
back to it
The summer hiatus is over, and a potter’s thoughts turn to blogging. I’m making a move - switching back to making pots full time after a long time away, and I’ll be launching another blog to follow my studio adventures. (More soon on that…)
This way I can keep Diving into the Clay focused on the many undercurrents of clay’s rich traditions and on the current...