Helen Bates on tue 21 oct 03
Surfing with Helen Bates - UK sites again - October 21st., 2003
Baynes, Deborah (Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK)
Excellent salt glazed pottery, plus some raku pieces shown by Deborah
Baynes, who also gives courses for aspiring potters and has published a
teaching videos (in PAL video format only, at this time.)
-- The Jenkins family (Ewenny Pottery) (Bridgend, South Wales, UK)
The Jenkins family of potters is stated to be the oldest family Pottery
in Wales
The family motto goes: "Gwell crefft na golud - Better a craft than gold"
Alun, Jayne and their daughter Caitlin Jenkins. (Alun worked with his
father Thomas Arthur Jenkins and Uncle David Jenkins, buying the pottery
when his uncle retired. The potters make mainly tableware and vessels,
with an occasional foray into figural sculpture. There is a nice page
of Jenkins pots from the 19th. century, and a shot of Caitlin with new
brightly-designed ware that nonetheless has its roots in the family
tradition.
-- Sarah Jane Nichols (The Cat Pottery) (West Burton, Yorkshire,
England, UK)
High fired slipcast cats from sculptures. The pieces are matt glazed
and hand decorated with iron, copper and other metallic oxides. A nice
selection of convincing tabby, ginger, and black and white British
Shorthair cats. (The company manufactures other lines of cats using
materials such as metal and concrete.)
-- David Jones (Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, UK)
(Member of Leamington Spa Studio Artists, Leamington, UK)
(Author of "Raku: Investigations into Fire", published by The Crowood
Press, UK)
David Jones's Raku fired ceramics are in collections in Europe, Japan
and USA.
Information from his publisher states that he is currently a senior
lecturer in the ceramics department at the University of Wolverhampton.
His work, which is in collections around the world, has a strong
individuality of form. His pots are designerly, yet they have been made
with a satisfying sense of proportion, and visually, they appear to have
what I can best call a good "heft." Jones's web site, which presents an
exhibition in collaboration with photographer Rod Dorling, and designer
John Bell, is presented as an electronic complement to the book "Raku:
Investigations into Fire." The site requires the Flash 6 player in
order to view the show, and you should be aware that the Flash images
may load sluggishly if the Internet is bogged down. Otherwise it is an
interesting site to view, and worth a visit for those with the right
hardware and software, ie: a fast computer and a fast Internet
connection. If you "zoom" a picture, you can use your mouse pointer to
slide the picture around, and the zoom application then re-focusses the
image. Note: in some browsers it may be necessary to decrease your
text size, (although it views fine in Internet Explorer.) In my
opinion, you can best see the pottery by viewing it in the "Exhibition
Space" images, as these benefit most from the zooming and sliding
around, and you can see how a number of pieces compare when shown
together.
A review of the show itself can be seen at the StudioPottery uk website:
"Imagine Ceramique" and Amazon have reviews of the book, both favourable:
Imagine Ceramique:
Amazon: Search for
"Raku" in the "Books" section, scroll down and click on "Raku:
Investigations into Fire, by David Jones" for Clayart member Irene
Poulton's review.
WBB Minerals (UK)
Lots of clays and glaze materials... with analyses.
(Will mainly be of interest to the technically - minded)
Helen
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Jan Goodland Metz on thu 23 oct 03
Hi, I just wanted to say thanks to Helen for posting these surfing
lists. It is really interesting to visit her choices and saves me a lot
of work!
Thanks Helen!
Jan
in southern Rhode Island
Helen Bates wrote:
> Surfing with Helen Bates - UK sites again - October 21st., 2003
>
> Baynes, Deborah (Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK)
>
> Excellent salt glazed pottery, plus some raku pieces shown by Deborah
> Baynes, who also gives courses for aspiring potters and has published a
> teaching videos (in PAL video format only, at this time.)
>
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