David Hendley on fri 2 dec 11
Tony, I am proud to say that I've had articles in Ceramics Monthly in
4 decades ('70's, 80's, 90's, and '00's). I need to get to work on the
'10's!
Last year Bill Jones, editor of Pottery Making Illustrated, wrote and
asked if he could reprint my 1977 article about canister jars with
locking bail lids. The thought of those grainy old black & white photos
and 35-year-old pots being back in the public eye was a scary idea
to envision, so I told him I would re-write, re-photograph, and
update the article. It will appear in the next PMI issue, Jan-Feb, 2012.
It's nice to know people still look at those antique magazines!
It was also 1976 when I went to a weekend workshop in New
Mexico and met Michael Cardew. My strongest memories are how
he spent hours in the evening, going around to meet and spend time
with every single workshop attendee - and he was not a young man.
Second, was that he spent, no exaggeration, 2 hours pulling a
handle. It took him all day to make one teapot, because the making
was really just a prop for his philosophizing and story-telling...
David Hendley
david@farmpots.com
http://www.farmpots.com
http://www.thewahooligans.com
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>I was working at Pinecroft today and thumbing thru some old CM's. There ar=
e
> some beauties going back to the early fifties. Since I'm courting English
> Slipware I picked up a 1976 issue with Micheal Cardew on the cover pullin=
g
> a handle for a jug. There in this issue was an article by David E Hendley
> on making a bumper jack extruder. There was David 35 years ago extruding.
> Well done ole timer. Tc
tony clennell on fri 2 dec 11
I was working at Pinecroft today and thumbing thru some old CM's. There are
some beauties going back to the early fifties. Since I'm courting English
Slipware I picked up a 1976 issue with Micheal Cardew on the cover pulling
a handle for a jug. There in this issue was an article by David E Hendley
on making a bumper jack extruder. There was David 35 years ago extruding.
Well done ole timer. Tc
Hank Murrow on sat 3 dec 11
On Dec 2, 2011, at 8:57 PM, David Hendley wrote:
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> It was also 1976 when I went to a weekend workshop in New
> Mexico and met Michael Cardew. My strongest memories are how
> he spent hours in the evening, going around to meet and spend time
> with every single workshop attendee - and he was not a young man.
> Second, was that he spent, no exaggeration, 2 hours pulling a
> handle. It took him all day to make one teapot, because the making
> was really just a prop for his philosophizing and story-telling...
Hey David;
I was tree-planting in Washington after getting my MFA from Oregon when =3D
I heard that Cardew was coming to Eugene. Kent Benson brought him up to =3D
Eugene from Venice and Santa Cruz to visit David Stannard, who had =3D
worked with him at the Leach pottery in Cornwall. I finished up my gig =3D
and hot-footed it back to Eugene to spend the next six weeks keeping a =3D
graphic account of Cardew's two morning 'talks' on a 40 foot x 4 foot =3D
heavy scroll of brown paper that we hung on the wall of the pottery =3D
studio. It seems he was 'rehearsing' his book, with us as the audience. =3D
An hour in the morning, break for tea and another hour before =3D
lunch...... for weeks! The man at eighty+ had wonderful energy...... =3D
something I hope for as I approach that age.=3D20
BTW, later in '79, I sponsored Harry Davis' visit to Oregon to give a =3D
two-week gig centered around his alternative practices for potters, also =
=3D
'rehearsing' his book, which came out some years later. He too had =3D
boundless energy and held forth both in the morning and the afternoon =3D
without wilting. Lovely man.
Cheers! Hank=3D
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