Richard Selfridge on thu 6 mar 03
We have recently spent alot of time working to update our website. Many
new pages have been added, and our reasons for doing this are many and
varied. First of all, our website is not specifically about selling our
work. Others may wish to create a Land's End or J.Crew shopping basket
site to sell their ceramic art on the web.
We sell alot of work through galleries, which sometimes goes off-shore and
is given as gifts. We have postcards of our works that have been in
national and international juried shows. These cards, with our web address
http://www.selfridgeceramicart.ca
are given with purchases and provide the collector with a link to our life
as makers.
Our site then, is really about describing our work, our process, a
retrospective exhibition, our ceramic travels and influences and now our
collection of works of other ceramic artists. We post these images of about
600 works as a study collection for people who are interested in quality
ceramic art. Many of the works are small and very functional; work that
has fed us in the same way that Hamada said his collection of world crafts
fed him. Well over half these pieces are trades that we have made with
potter friends and colleagues during our nearly 30 years as makers.
Also new to the site, is a section about our recent trip to the Aomori
International Woodfired Festival last August. We also travelled for nine
days seeing many historic kilns ceramic kiln sites including a two day
visit to Mashiko where we saw the Hamada collection in the museum. Lee Love
and his wife Jean gave us a guided tour which you can read about on the page.
Comments about the site and these new additions are welcome. We have
constructed the site ourselves and we like the way it, although being
large, is really simple without alot of bells and whistles, more like a
museum catalogue. The thumbnails are compressed for fast loading and if
clicked provide a full screen image to see the details.
Yours for a more image rich Clayart, Carol and Richard Selfridge
http://www.selfridgeceramicart.ca
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