Helen Bates on thu 29 mar 07
Surfing with Helen Bates - March 29, 2007 - Japan, UK, USA
(in no particular order)
Nihon Mingeikan (Japan Folk Crafts Museum) (Tokyo, Japan)
http://www.mingeikan.or.jp/
(On the Leach Pottery Restoration site is a quotation from The JFCM (NM)
calling the Leach Pottery "...an exceptionally important cultural
asset...") (Directors: Yanagi Soetsu [1936 to 1961]; Hamada Shoji
[1961 to 1977]; Yanagi Munemichi [1977 to 2006]; Kobayashi Youtarou
[2006 to Present]) (The latter is a recently-retired international
business-man born in the UK, educated in Japan and the USA, and rose to
be chairman of the Fuji Xerox company.)
Victoria and Albert Museum (Design a Tile online tool) (London, England,
UK)
(Warning: Broadband only!)
http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1312_artsandcrafts/design_a_tile/tool/
Fun piece of online software for those with high bandwidth... Great way
to waste time... ;)
http://www.vam.ac.uk/ (homepage)
Old English Slipware Pottery and "The Beauty of English Slipware" by
Masaaki Shibata (Japan slipware society)
http://www.slipware.jp/ (Japanese language site)
Altavista Babelfish translation url: http://tinyurl.com/25yz73
(Note that in the translated version, there are still Japanese
Characters at the top of the page, and these are the more important
links. The third link is to a page with half a dozen or so zoomable
thumbnail images of historic English slipware.) (The last of the four
top links is to 4 pages about master potter, Masaaki Shibata, the author
of the book, who demonstrates, in thumbnail images and text, his method
of making his beautuful English-style Slipware, using ash glazes,
instead of the traditional lead.)
Angie Sabine Peter (Forest Pottery) (Auroville, Pondicherry, South
India):
(Delayed gratification: it's pains and its joys...)
http://www.forest-pottery.com/
(Angie Sabine Peter, a ceramic artist living in Auroville, India, who
studied pottery with Ray Meeker and worked later for Deborah Smith at
Golden Bridge Pottery, Pondicherry, spent 6 months with Shibata at his
pottery in Japan.):
http://www.forest-pottery.com/Australian_magazine_'Ceramics_Art_and_Perception_Technical'.pdf
(Much of her current work is in the Japanese ash-glazed slipware
technique with ash glazes comprised of 30 to 50% by weight of ash
collected from the forest surrounding her studio. As well, she makes
large-scale pictorial murals, functional pottery, gargoyles, masks, and
other decorative forms.)
"Kevin Francis" (Peggy Davies Ceramics) (Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent,
England, UK)
http://www.kevinfrancis.co.uk/Files/KF/All%20Toby%20Jugs.html
(Toby Jugs, including a series of potters: Clarice Cliff; Charlotte
Rhead; Hannah Barlow; Josiah Wedgwood; Pershore Miller; Bernard Leach;
Ralph Wood; Sandra Kuck; Sir Henry Doulton; William Moorcroft; George
Tinworth; Lucie Rie; Peggy Davies; Picasso; David Winter; James
Macintyre, by modellers Douglas V Tootle, Daniel Lovett, Ray Noble, and
Andrew Moss.
The Hudson Valley Pottery Trail (High Falls area, Hudson Valley, NY, USA)
http://www.potterytrail.com/
(Potters and sculptors with work shown: Ash Works [Ann & Philip
Harris], Henry Cavanaugh, Kaete Brittin Shaw, Laura Wilensky, Liz
Lawrence, Steve Fabrico, Stone Window Gallery [Brinton Baker], ,Triplo
Studios [Joe Triplo], Westcote Bell Pottery [Vaughan Smith and
Jacqueline M. Cohen], Zoya) (Some of the potters slip cast their
pieces, then hand-decorate them.) (By the way, there is another potter
named Liz Lawrence, living in Wales, uK.)
The Bernard Leach (St Ives) Trust Limited (Penwith, Cornwall, UK)
http://www.theleachpotterystives.co.uk/
(The Leach Pottery Restoration Project received two major grants in
2006.)
(The Penwith District Council was then able to purchase the pottery, and
renovations have been commenced.)
(For UK potters, note the job offer for "Lead Potter", now probably
long-since filled):
Bernard Leach (1887-1979) (Two self-portraits):
http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?LinkID=mp05497&rNo=0&role=art
http://www.cambridgeprints.com/photos/LEACH.HTML
Reginald Turvey (painter) and Bernard Leach:
http://bahai-library.com/bafa/t/turvey.htm
Janet Leach (1918-1997) (Tate St. Ives) (St. Ives, Cornwall, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/stives/exhibitions/janetleach/default.shtm
W T McLennan (Holly Tree, AL, USA)
http://www.slotinfolkart.com/Nov%20Online%20Auction/Nov%2005%20lots%201-204%20html/source/125_1.mclennanface.htm
http://www.slotinfolkart.com/Nov%20Online%20Auction/Nov%2005%20lots%201-204%20html/source/126_1.mclennanpitcher.htm
(Interesting, more or less contemporary Face Jug and Face Pitcher by W.
T. McLennan, of Holly Tree, Alababam, whose work dates from the later
1980's to the late 1990's as far as I can tell.)
http://www.liveauctioneers.com/search?q=%2Bmclennan
(Some W T Mclennan pieces, including 2 miniature face jugs, one with
frog and one with lizard perched on side)
David and Ausma Binch (Oakwood Ceramics)
(Thoresby Hall Gallery, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England, UK)
http://www.oakwoodceramics.co.uk/
(Online Gallery for Contemporary British Studio Ceramics)
(Live exhibitions now held periodically at Thoresby Hall)
Charles Bound (Geuffordd, Welshpool, Powys, Wales, UK)
http://charlesbound.com/ (Born in New York City, taught highschool
English, worked in publishing in the USA and Africa, was involved in
writing and theatre work, before turning to ceramics and eventually
relocating to Wales.) (Wood fired thrown work, altered by drawing on
the piece and attacking it physically) (Body forms, Bowls, Plates,
Pots, Shards) ("The itch to draw into slabs of clay and move the
surface about, but keeping the energy of a thrown piece just plain ends
dinner service commissions!")
That's all, folks! (and it's a bunch!)
Helen
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Helen Bates
Belleville, Ontario, Canada
Clayarters' URLs: http://amsterlaw.com/clayart/
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