Lee Love on mon 16 jun 08
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Antoinette Badenhorst
wrote:
> Lee, if I read your e-mail, I will read and check everything before I make a
> comment; so yes I did LOOK and READ. You provided 3 examples. All of them are >excellent potters, but 3 Swallows does not make a summer.
Those examples are only a sample of folks doing excellent work in
porcelain here. I simply pick three I know personally.
> For each one of those that you've mentioned, I can provide probably 20 others
>working in a variety of styles in porcelain.
Diversity is a strength. Americans don't follow top down, ridged
orthodoxy very well. At least, not in art and ceramics.
> information. Thank you for that. However all of those styles, with the exception of >a few pieces will almost look the same if one would use stoneware clay.
No, they don't look the same. Some folks don't make an aesthetic
distinction between their porcelain and stoneware, but those folks
are in the minority. They are as frequent as folks who make porcelain
that looks more like glass than porcelain. There are also folks who
treat stoneware in a way that works better with porcelain. I was
looking at one such person's work in the sales shop at NCC today.
>What do you( or anyone else) think of the education to distinct different clay
> mediums from each other. Also: Do you think there is adequate information
> available from books, the internet,or any other source?
As someone has mentioned, Tom Turner has opened a porcelain school in
N. Carolina.
The literature on porcelain is pretty rich and extensive. It is
even richer in Japan. But you should write a book to fill any void
you see or get some translated from the Japanese. The more knowledge
the better!
--
Lee Love in Minneapolis
http://mashikopots.blogspot.com/
http://claycraft.blogspot.com/
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is
rounded with a sleep." --PROSPERO Tempest Shakespeare
Antoinette Badenhorst on tue 17 jun 08
Lee, if I read your e-mail, I will read and check everything before I make a
comment; so yes I did LOOK and READ. You provided 3 examples. All of them are excellent potters, but 3 Swallows does not make a summer. For each one of those that you've mentioned, I can provide probably 20 others working in a variety of styles in porcelain. Your comment of how potters work with porcelain in your region is valuable
information. Thank you for that. However all of those styles, with the exception of a few pieces will almost look the same if one would use stoneware clay. What do you( or anyone else) think of the education to distinct different clay
mediums from each other. Also: Do you think there is adequate information
available from books, the internet,or any other source?
--
Antoinette Badenhorst
www.clayandcanvas.com
www.studiopottery.co.uk
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Lee Love
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Antoinette Badenhorst
> wrote:
>
> > It is hard for me to lay my finger directly on the sore spot without
sounding
> bias(is
> >that the right word to use?) Let me say it this way: How many potters do you
> know that
> >works with porcelain differently than with stoneware?
>
> Did you LOOK at any of the links I provided? Maren, Linda and Matt
> all are attentive to their materials. Most Mingei influenced
> ceramicist pay very close attention to materials. That is one of the
> ways to figure out if a potter is being true to Mingei.
>
> Many folks around here, because vapor firing is part of the
> regional aesthetic, fire porcelain in soda and/or wood. They like it
> because it is more responsive to flashing than most stoneware.
>
> The most accurate way to describe American porcelain, is that
> it is diverse. It is influenced by porcelain work from around the
> world. And regional preferences and the population's education about
> ceramics and pottery varies to a high degree from place to place.
>
>
> --
> Lee Love in Minneapolis
> http://mashikopots.blogspot.com/
> http://claycraft.blogspot.com/
>
> "We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is
> rounded with a sleep." --PROSPERO Tempest Shakespeare
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