Helen Bates on mon 11 nov 02
Surfing with Helen Bates - Urls Late June 02 posted Nov
10th. 02
ImagineCeramic (France) - French ceramics online:
http://www.ceramique.com
French Ceramics site with links to ceramists, suppliers,
associations, teaching venues,
discussion forum, galleries and museums, shows, publications
and more.
A good chance to see French ceramic art,
Click any word in the menu across the top of the home page.
From there, you can avail yourself of a drop down menu on
the left side of the page.
Opening in a new window is a good idea in case you get lost
and to avoid reloading delays.
Other than that, I'll leave you on your own to explore.
For non- French speakers, some minimal English is available.
A (sometimes very amusing) machine translation can be done,
using "Babelfish".
Babelfish is now owned by the Altavista search site:
http://babel.altavista.com
Galerie HD Nick (France) (French language only)
http://www.hdnick.com
This French gallery has several clay sculptors, and more
working in glass.
Enter the site and click on "Artistes Permanentes" then use
the menu on the left.
The artwork loads quickly, so you might as well look at them
all, but for clay work, see:
Michel Wofahrt, Camille Virot, Vincent Potier, Yves Mohy,
Sylvie de Meurville.
Oyster Plates (Paris, France) (English language)
http://www.oysterplates.homestead.com/home.html
Antique oyster plates specialist in Paris, France.
Plates for sale from France and other European countries.
A reference for oyster plates collectors.
This part has photos, many of them enlargeable, of antique
oyster plates and servers
from Englans, France, Germany, Belgium Luxembourg, and the
USA.
Legacy Art (Columbia, MissouriUSA)
http://www.legacyart.com
The gallery section - works in clay:
http://www.legacyart.com/galleries/clay.shtml
Artists:
James Kasper - stoneware and porcelain wood-fired Wall Heads
Gary Hootman - The artist's "sculptural constructs" focus on
texture, line, and volume.
Ann Grotjan - functional stoneware with the colour of clay
as a strong design element.
Larry Brow - Brow's stoneware chairs are absolutely unusual.
Neely Hachtel - functional works are influenced by Fiesta
and Depression ware.
Neely's sculptural works are usually vessel- based
volumetric forms.
Plus: Universities and Clay:
U. Westminster, Harrow, (UK) School of Communication and
Creative Industries - Ceramics
http://cci.wmin.ac.uk/courseareas/art/ba_ceramics.html
Offeres a BA (Hons) Ceramics in Contemporary Ceramic
practice, sculpture, installation etc.
The 2002 Degree show is here:
http://www.harrowceramics.co.uk/
The work shown is of very high quality, in design and in
the professionalism of its execution.
The 2001 show is here:
http://www.harrowceramics.co.uk/2001/
The University of British Columbia Pottery Club (Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada)
http://www.ams.ubc.ca/clubs/pottery/
I include this because of the club's page of studio safety
information and rules.
http://www.ams.ubc.ca/clubs/pottery/studio/studio.html#safety
UBC's home page is:
http://www.ubc.ca/
There is no academic ceramics program at the university.
Carlo Zauli (Faenza, Italy)
http://www.galleriapaolonanni.it/scultura_zauli_opere.htm
Major Italian Ceramic Sculptor
Represented at Galleria d'Arte Paolo Nanni (Bologna, Italy)
The work in clay is a very striking piece.
I ran across Zauli on the above site first.
This led me to do a web search to find more about him. I
came up with:
The Zauli Museum (Faenza, Italy):
http://www.museozauli.it/eng/presentation.htm
Some English pages, but for the entire sitein Italian, go
to:
http://www.museozauli.it/
(Zauli died early in 2002.)
A couple of interesting commercial sites:
Ann Sacks (Portland, Oregon, USA)
http://www.annsacks.com/
Commercial site shows an extensive line of hand made tiles
for the upscale market.
Doulton Drinking Water Filters - H2O International Inc.
(Wingham, Ontario, Canada)
http://www.doulton.ca
All you could ever want to know about water?
http://www.doulton.ca/history.html
How the Doulton family developed the ceramic water filtering
candle for Queen Victoria.
The H2O International site mentions no business connection
with Royal Doulton and nor
does Royal Doulton:
http://www.royal-doulton.com/
I presume H2O International purchased the "Goodwill" and the
right to manufacture the
filters from the British pottery.
Helen Bates Nov 10 2002
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