Tim Stevens on wed 10 feb 99
Hello All,
Has anyone been to any of Steven Jepson's pottery
classes in Florida?
I considering attending a one week class this year
and am looking for any insight/feedback.
I've been throwing off and on for about 7 years
and think its time to get some inspriation/new techniques.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated..
Tim Stevens
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Gregory D Lamont on thu 11 feb 99
At 08:41 AM 2/10/99 -0500, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>
> Hello All,
>
> Has anyone been to any of Steven Jepson's pottery
> classes in Florida?
> I considering attending a one week class this year
> and am looking for any insight/feedback.
>
> I've been throwing off and on for about 7 years
> and think its time to get some inspriation/new techniques.
>
> Any feedback would be greatly appreciated..
>
> Tim Stevens
Hi Tim,
Clayart member Fred Paget attended one some time back and wrote the
following review of his visit:
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 11:01:16 EST
From: Fred Paget
Subject: Jepson classes
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
I was one of the students in Stephen Jepson's mid November two week
session. I was very happy with the class and increased my throwing skill
about 200%. (I have been back in pottery for about 3 years now after a 30
year hiatus. Back then we had a ceramics studio with students doing the
greenware thing and were just starting to get into wheel work when my wife
got arthritis so bad she gave it up and since I was just helping out
everything stopped. Now 33 years later, retired and with time I took it up
again at the local high school night school.We have a great setup for a
high school with two gas kilns about 25 wheels and a nice big building. My
throwing slowly got to the point where I could make simple things up to
about 3 lbs. of clay and to maybe a foot high.Bought my own kiln and a
wheel and looked around for some workshops to improve my skill. Saw
Jepson's ad (I had his videos) and decided to take the class.
The studio is a brand new screened building big enough to handle about 10
students and we only had 5. Everybody had a new electric wheel- there were
several Brents , about 3 MAXs, a Soldener. an older kickwheel with motor
and I forget what all else. We used the clay that Jepson uses and it is
marvelous clay - so forgiving.
We each were supplied a set of the special tools that Stephen has developed
to use while at the school and most of us bought a set to take home. We
used the plaster bat system he uses and sells too. I bought a supply of
these and wheel adapters also to take home. When you get used to his system
through the instruction you want to adopt most of it.
Jepson is a very skilled potter and an enthusiastic teacher. He does many
demonstrations and then gives the students time to make their versions of
what he demos. It goes very fast and he is there to correct your mistakes in
technique and show you how to do it the way he teaches. You are there to
learn the skill of throwing and in the tradition of Marguerite Wildenhain,
all the work is recycled into the clay bins after you get done looking at
it and maybe cutting it in half. Nothing is fired - you take home only your
skill.
We had three ladies in the class and two men. Both of us men were retired
but the other gentleman owns a pottery and a big construction business. The
ladies were all about going into business in Clay. One young lady was very
intent and Stephen gave her special attention to the development of a
business plan and I saw her work improve to the point where she used up
almost all the clay the last day. Another very young lady could hardly make
a mug after the first two days but she started to catch up and she worked
right through the weekend and when we came back Monday she was doing very
well.
While the classes go on, the Jepson Pottery is in full production and we
were shown everything we wanted to see about the processes.Tom Schafer was
there making RAM press molds with beautiful incised designs. Britta Jenson
was decorating porcelain and Jean -lady of all work- was running the RAM
press, loading and unloading the kiln. carrying on the selling end of the
business, etc.,etc.,etc. Stephen was in and out and making hundreds of mugs
and pitchers and goblets and so on for his line of hand thrown pottery
while we practiced. On the week end he was off to sell at a nearby art fair
and some of us went there to see it.
Jepson's place is away out in the country about 27 miles from Cape
Canaveral -we saw a launch of the space shuttle from just down the road.
You definitly need to bring or rent a car since we all stayed at a nice
clean motel
in Sanford (about 17 miles to the pottery). The motel was about $24 per
day. Plenty of places to eat in Sanford or Oviedo. For lunch I ate at the
Subway sandwich shop in Geneva 2 miles from the studio. We all went out to
dinner together about four times(dutch).Stephen knows the good places.
Stephen says he is going to build a new air conditioned classroom building
but until it is done I would not want to go to a class in the middle of the
summer.
I thoroughly enjoyed the class and am hoping for better weather here in
California so I can resume practicing. I have an outdoor studio here at
home.
Regards,
Fred Paget---Mill Valley,CA,USA
I am going to do a one-week session the week of May 24-28.
Regards,
Greg Lamont
3011 Northwood Drive
Ames, IA 50010-4750
(515) 233-3442
gdlamont@iastate.edu
http://www.ourwebpage.net/greglamont/
Robert Marshall Simpson on fri 12 feb 99
Hello Tim,.
I had a one week class at Jepson's studio last November and it exceeded my
expectations. I learned
how to do things so much faster and with much better results and in a very
relaxing atmosphere.
Now the wheels in his studio are Jepson wheels and they are great. When I
do replace my Pacifica
it will be with one of his wheels. You won't be wasting your time or money
with Stephen.
Kayte in OK (where the wind is really blowing today)
-----Original Message-----
From: Gregory D Lamont
To: CLAYART@LSV.UKY.EDU
Date: Thursday, February 11, 1999 6:50 AM
Subject: Re: Jepson's Pottery Classes
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
At 08:41 AM 2/10/99 -0500, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>
> Hello All,
>
> Has anyone been to any of Steven Jepson's pottery
> classes in Florida?
> I considering attending a one week class this year
> and am looking for any insight/feedback.
>
> I've been throwing off and on for about 7 years
> and think its time to get some inspriation/new techniques.
>
> Any feedback would be greatly appreciated..
>
> Tim Stevens
Hi Tim,
Clayart member Fred Paget attended one some time back and wrote the
following review of his visit:
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 11:01:16 EST
From: Fred Paget
Subject: Jepson classes
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
I was one of the students in Stephen Jepson's mid November two week
session. I was very happy with the class and increased my throwing skill
about 200%. (I have been back in pottery for about 3 years now after a 30
year hiatus. Back then we had a ceramics studio with students doing the
greenware thing and were just starting to get into wheel work when my wife
got arthritis so bad she gave it up and since I was just helping out
everything stopped. Now 33 years later, retired and with time I took it up
again at the local high school night school.We have a great setup for a
high school with two gas kilns about 25 wheels and a nice big building. My
throwing slowly got to the point where I could make simple things up to
about 3 lbs. of clay and to maybe a foot high.Bought my own kiln and a
wheel and looked around for some workshops to improve my skill. Saw
Jepson's ad (I had his videos) and decided to take the class.
The studio is a brand new screened building big enough to handle about 10
students and we only had 5. Everybody had a new electric wheel- there were
several Brents , about 3 MAXs, a Soldener. an older kickwheel with motor
and I forget what all else. We used the clay that Jepson uses and it is
marvelous clay - so forgiving.
We each were supplied a set of the special tools that Stephen has developed
to use while at the school and most of us bought a set to take home. We
used the plaster bat system he uses and sells too. I bought a supply of
these and wheel adapters also to take home. When you get used to his system
through the instruction you want to adopt most of it.
Jepson is a very skilled potter and an enthusiastic teacher. He does many
demonstrations and then gives the students time to make their versions of
what he demos. It goes very fast and he is there to correct your mistakes
in
technique and show you how to do it the way he teaches. You are there to
learn the skill of throwing and in the tradition of Marguerite Wildenhain,
all the work is recycled into the clay bins after you get done looking at
it and maybe cutting it in half. Nothing is fired - you take home only your
skill.
We had three ladies in the class and two men. Both of us men were retired
but the other gentleman owns a pottery and a big construction business. The
ladies were all about going into business in Clay. One young lady was very
intent and Stephen gave her special attention to the development of a
business plan and I saw her work improve to the point where she used up
almost all the clay the last day. Another very young lady could hardly make
a mug after the first two days but she started to catch up and she worked
right through the weekend and when we came back Monday she was doing very
well.
While the classes go on, the Jepson Pottery is in full production and we
were shown everything we wanted to see about the processes.Tom Schafer was
there making RAM press molds with beautiful incised designs. Britta Jenson
was decorating porcelain and Jean -lady of all work- was running the RAM
press, loading and unloading the kiln. carrying on the selling end of the
business, etc.,etc.,etc. Stephen was in and out and making hundreds of
mugs
and pitchers and goblets and so on for his line of hand thrown pottery
while we practiced. On the week end he was off to sell at a nearby art fair
and some of us went there to see it.
Jepson's place is away out in the country about 27 miles from Cape
Canaveral -we saw a launch of the space shuttle from just down the road.
You definitly need to bring or rent a car since we all stayed at a nice
clean motel
in Sanford (about 17 miles to the pottery). The motel was about $24 per
day. Plenty of places to eat in Sanford or Oviedo. For lunch I ate at the
Subway sandwich shop in Geneva 2 miles from the studio. We all went out to
dinner together about four times(dutch).Stephen knows the good places.
Stephen says he is going to build a new air conditioned classroom building
but until it is done I would not want to go to a class in the middle of the
summer.
I thoroughly enjoyed the class and am hoping for better weather here in
California so I can resume practicing. I have an outdoor studio here at
home.
Regards,
Fred Paget---Mill Valley,CA,USA
I am going to do a one-week session the week of May 24-28.
Regards,
Greg Lamont
3011 Northwood Drive
Ames, IA 50010-4750
(515) 233-3442
gdlamont@iastate.edu
http://www.ourwebpage.net/greglamont/
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9?= Sprattling on sun 21 feb 99
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=3E----------------------------Original message----------------------------
=3EAt 08:41 AM 2/10/99 -0500, you wrote:
=3E=3E----------------------------Original =
message----------------------------
=3E=3E
=3E=3E Hello All,
=3E=3E
=3E=3E Has anyone been to any of Steven Jepson's pottery
=3E=3E classes in Florida?
=3E
=3E=3E I considering attending a one week class this year
=3E=3E and am looking for any insight/feedback.
=3E=3E
=3E=3E I've been throwing off and on for about 7 years
=3E=3E and think its time to get some inspriation/new techniques.
=3E=3E
=3E=3E Any feedback would be greatly appreciated..
=3E=3E
=3E=3E Tim Stevens
=3E
Hi Tim,
I also took a Stephen Jepson workshop over a year ago now. There were four
of us in the class at all different skill levels. I started potting over
30 years ago, working mostly in a vacuum for the past 20, and decided I
need a new infusion of skills. I was amazed at how much my skills improved
after having taken the class. Stephen said we would start noticing
improvements in our work long after the workshop, and boy was he right.
Many of my friends commented on how much more mature my work seems now. I
took many photos of his demonstrations, and many notes. These really
helped when I got back to my own studio. I always struggled making plates
before. I hated making them, but after Stephen's class I can now make 20=22
platters easily, and I love it. It was the single most significant
decision (aside from deciding to be a potter in the first place,) that I
have made in my pottery career.
Have a great time, but don't go in the heat of the summer=21 I went in
October and it was beautiful weather.
Ren=E9
Stone Burner Studio, CA
Muddy
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