Helen Bates on sat 3 jan 04
Jan. 04th., 2004
Surfing with Helen Bates - Crystalline Glaze sork around the world - Jan.=
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04th., 2004
I received a post from Edouard Bastarache today about the new web site fo=
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French ceramist and crystalline glazer Denis Caraty .
Denis Caraty: (St-Martin-sur-Ocre, France)
(French and English)
Denis has been developing absolutely gorgeous ceramics-and-crystals work.=
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His forms are either include eggs or vases. The crystals have amazing=20
patterns within their growth ranges, and the relationships of the crystal=
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to one another are visually most satisfying. As for the eggs, they sit o=
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their bases glowing like Faberge eggs decorated by nature (which, in trut=
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they are.)
Long-time readers of Clayart will recognize Denis as Smart.Conseil, edito=
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of the online ceramics resource:
"Acc=E8s au Monde de la C=E9ramique avec Smart.Conseil."
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/smart2000/
(This is a French site but has many articles in English, either written o=
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translated by fellow Clayarter Edouard Bastarache.)
Don't forget to check his links to other crystalline glazers. (It's not=20
exhaustive, so if you are interested in who else is doing this work, chec=
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the archives on the Clayart server:
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I did this just now myself, and found three recent items of interest.
1; Diane Creber announced on Clayart that she is writing a new edition of=
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her book on Crystalline glazes.
Here is her website again:
Diane Creber (Odessa, ON, Canada)
2. Marilu Tejero referred to Ted Secombe (Victoria, Australia)
Ted Secombe (Yarra Glen, Victoria, Australia)
(The second link gives aother e-mail address.)
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3. Tony Hansen writes that Digitalfire is close to releasing Fara Shimbo'=
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"Crystal Glazes II" book. It will also be available in print, on CD and a=
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a download.
By the way, don't forget about the superb glaze technologist and=20
crystalline glazer Lasse Ostman of Sweden:
http://www.barra.se/stoneware/english/engelsketta.htm
Finally, here's a collector's page of "links to links" to crystalline gla=
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practitioners:
Christine Alice Corcos page:
http://faculty.law.lsu.edu/ccorcos/lawctr/cccrysind.htm
Artists currently Working With Crystalline Ceramics
Helen
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Helen Bates - mailto:nell@cogeco.ca, nelbanell@yahoo.com
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