Ron & Nancy on mon 5 jun 00
Dear Clayarters
I have just come back from a road trip along the Cal. Coast. I found
little or no Raku or pit fired art. Is there a reason for this? I looked
in galleries from San Diego to Ventura county ,all around the beach
areas. There was lots of high fire. Any one have some insight on this?
Nancy Hamilton-Hughes
clay it's not a diversion, it's obsession.
Shelley Corwin on tue 6 jun 00
lots of raku and pit fire out here, but, fire laws are very stringent. one
wkshop is on pt reyes, look in this months and last c. monthly. look up the
s. cal american ceramic society. they have an annual aug pit fire on
catalina and usually one locally around halloween.
BobWicks@AOL.COM on tue 6 jun 00
I suggest that you contact Hal Reiger from Rough & Ready, CA. He is a renown
authority on this subject and it an author on RAKU.
Bob
Helen Bates on wed 7 jun 00
A teacher here in Belleville Ontario told me just this week that the
galleries aren't buying raku. I guess she may know something about it,
as her husband, now a glassblower, was a raku potter for many years.
On the other hand, there is a raku co-operative of 6 women in Toronto.
The group is called the "Balls of Fire". They're good potters and good
artists in clay, I think. They were assisting Harold Takayesu at the
all day raku workshop held last Friday as part of the preamble to the
Fusion Conference of which I wrote earlier.
Helen
PS: some new photos on the Fusion web page:
http://www.clayandglass.on.ca/conf.htm
2 of Bruce Cochrane's, 2 by Lana Wilson. An amazing blue teapot (now
just enjoy looking at it... not funtional, not "strokable", but really
grand all the same.
As for Bruce's work, it was amazing to watch him throu his large pieces,
alter them, finish them (well, obviously not the glazing). The last pot
I made here once I came back home had a nice wide lip that I'm sure was
influenced by Rob's nesting bowls' lips.
Helen
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PurpleLama@AOL.COM on thu 8 jun 00
In a message dated 6/6/00 10:14:08 AM, slvrsfr@DAKOTACOM.NET writes:
<< I have just come back from a road trip along the Cal. Coast. I found
little or no Raku or pit fired art. Is there a reason for this? >>
Nancy,
My work is not in galleries, but I can tell you that I have not done any raku
since I moved to southern CA. I sure do miss it. I live in LA county and with
all the air polution restrictions and laws, I am afraid that I'd get a fine
or ??? Maybe I'm just paranoid. I am eager to hear the experience of other
folks in the area.
Shula
Redondo Beach, California. USA
PurpleLama@aol.com
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