Helen Bates on mon 13 jan 03
to Clayart Jan 13 03
Surfing with Helen Bate - Clay Urls - Early to Mid Jan 02 - submitted to
Clayart Jan 13 03
John Tygart (Burnt Mud Pottery) (Highlandville, MO, USA) (Clayarter)
http://www.gardenartists.cc/burntmud.htm
Whether John's pieces are "functional" or "non-functional", they are
extremely engaging sculptural fantasies for the garden.
I love this (edited) quote from John's bio: (...n)ot wanting to follow
in the traditional family occupations of man of the cloth
(preacher) or incarcerated prisoner (criminal), I decided to become the
next best thing -- an artist."
http://www.smoca-mo.org/group/group15.html
This John Tygart sculptural piece was on exhibit at the "The Small
Museum of Contemporary Art, Missouri" (SMoCA-Mo)
You can click on the large image for a huge image.
A visit to South Africa
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Gerhard de Beer - Crazy Clay (Knysna, South Africa)
http://www.crazyclay.co.za/
Runs a production studio specializing in African animals - The animals
done in raku glazes and post-firing reduction are quite "neat"!
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Andre (Yogi) de Beer
http://www.cowshedpottery.co.za/
This potter hand throws absolutely huge pots, plus he makes actual
pottery old fashioned style bathtubs. How he makes them, I don't know,
but you can certainly lie back in them! There's an amusing shot of
Andre down in one of his humungous pots.
Andre writes that he force-dries the ware between stages of adding and
throwing coils and once-fires it, by pouring the glazes on the greenpot
while it is still on the wheel. The glazes are very nice, by the way!
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Lesley-Ann Hoets (Hot-art Fireplaces) (South Africa)
http://www.hotart.co.za/
Major South African potter and academic who collaborated with engineer
Alex Kielczynski to develop a thermal shock-proof
free-standing ceramic fireplace. Hand moulded from her original
hand-built fireplace models.
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Alex Kielczynski (South Africa)
http://www.earthfire.co.za
Alex now runs his own commercial production facility, Earthfire
Fireplaces, creating a colour limited line of these stoves, which are
marketed internationally, as are those made by Hot-art.
Contemporary Ceramic Art (New York City, New York, USA)
http://www.ceramicarts.net/
Sculpture and functional pottery web site exhibiting work of varying
styles by a number of New York City ceramists. (I'm not sure
if all the artists are based in NYC, as the location is not always
indicated.) Susanne Greene - plant forms; Liz Biddle - tiles, etc.;
Sheryl Zacharia - abstract tile arrangements; Helayne Friedland -
altered thrown functional pieces; Carolyn Judson -geometric forms;
Kate Missett - Canopic type jars; Beth Watson - figurative sculpture;
Outi Putkonen - Art Nouveau style; Claire Clark - figurative
work; Kazuko Azuma - traditional Japanese styles; Marilyn Fox - complex
organic forms.
Marcus O' Mahony (Glencairn Pottery) (County Waterford, Ireland)
http://www.marcusomahony.com/
Salt glaze potter. Taught ceramics at the college level for a lengthy
period. Offers courses at the pottery, including a five and a half day
pit-fire course and a 7 day salt glaze course. His work is fairly
traditional in appearance, yet individual in form.
Some parts of the web site are still being developed, but he has a well
organised gallery page up and the thumbnails are clickable to excellent
larger images.
Nan Hamilton Mudville Pottery (Boston (Somerville) Massachusetts,
USA)
http://www.nanhamilton.com/
Nan holds an annual auction of her hand thrown and hand painted
pottery. She is obviously very well-known in her area for her
depictions of animals and birds and dogs, many in natural settings? Nan
runs classes at the Mudville pottery as well., and also sells work on
EBay.
At the most recent auction at her Mudville studio, a fish-painted jug
sold for more than $5000.00. (Normal winning bids run between $150.00
and $500.00 or so.) The painting on these pots is wonderful, pictorial,
and painterly.
There is a large Quicktime(R) movie of the auction that is downloadable
in three versions depending on your modem speed.
Kristin Gudjonsdottir (Lives in California, born in Reykjavik,
Iceland)
http://www.finecraftnetwork.com/AM/Artists/GudjonsdottirK/GudjonsdottirK.html
Ceramic sculptor whose work is based on the cone (or what have you?)
(represented by the Function + Art Gallery of Chicago, Illinois USA,
which also represents
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Clayarter Robert Pulley is also represented here.
http://www.finecraftnetwork.com/AM/Artists/PulleyR/PulleyR.html
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Chris Greyder
http://www.finecraftnetwork.com/AM/Artists/GryderC/GryderC.html
Another F & A gallery artist working in clay using a unique approach,
represented by Function + Art
Now over to Turkey, but you'll need an interpreter in some of the sites,
to read the text.
Thanks to Clayarter Joy Hought for starting me off in this direction.
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Republic of Turkey, Ministry of Culture
http://www.kultur.gov.tr/portal/default_en.asp?belgeno=6813
Ceramics Exhibition - one piece, usually very interesting, by each of
the dozen or so ceramists represented.
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http://www.kultur.gov.tr/portal/default_en.asp?belgeno=6795
Success Award of State Competition for Ceramics - several more artists
shown on this page
(Be aware that there is propaganda on this Turkish Government web site.)
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Some artists connected with the Sanal Museum (Turkey)
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Attila Galatali (Turkey)
http://www.isnet.net.tr/sanat/plastik/sanalmuze/turk/attilagalatali/indexalt.html
Strong and unusual sculptural work in clay and glazes.
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Semih Kaplan
http://www.isnet.net.tr/sanat/plastik/sanalmuze/turk/semihkaplan/
Several plates with fish paintings
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The Sanal Museum
http://www.sanalmuze.org/
The Sanal Museum's own web site (not completed)
Now to Spain, or more specifically, to Catalonia, and the Museo del
Cantir de Argentona in Barcelona, now known as Argentona,
http://www.museucantir.org/ (Click on "English")
The Argentona "Cantir" festivals celebrate the regions long-established
tradition of pottery jug-making and the festival of St.
Dominic. To see all the earthenware water jug editions produced
annually for the festivals, from 1951 - 2000 - click on "Shop" then on
"Catalogue."
TeaToys Online Store (physical location not known)
http://www.teatoys.com/
The Kitiyama store (web site introduction by Joseph Justice)
Everything, and I mean "Everything" for Chanoyu, the Japanese "Tea
Ceremony" (Teas too)
Good surfing...
Helen
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