tony clennell on sun 16 aug 09
Tom; Thanx for your comment on my blog. I thought Clayart is still the
best place to continue dialog on clay thoughts as it fuels others
ideas.
I'm glad the new work is slowly growing on you. After the past 3 years
of travel and study you can well imagine that I am in la-la. People
asked when I came home from Japan- how has Japan affected your work,
then China, then Italy, then grad school. The truth is all these
places and people have had a profound effect and it is taking it's
time to surface. What I really owe to USU is this new love of a
textured surface and it is taking time for me to adopt it to the
rather thin walls of thrown pots. So I am trying to incorporate
throwing and hand built sprigs and additions. I no longer have the
maverick shino glaze to wow people over. Mind you we fired yesterday
and it is 80% shino with slips. This is still our bread and butter
line.
Like any new work that I have started it takes a few years probably 6
or 7 for me to really nail it. It then becomes a successful line and i
drop it. I think it is fear of success.
Gotta go finish studio clean up. Man the place was a pig pen.
All the best to u and Betsy.
Tony
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