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surfing with helen bates - june 29, 2005 - canada, usa, japan,

updated thu 30 jun 05

 

Helen Bates on wed 29 jun 05

(Nepal )

Surfing with Helen Bates - June 29, 2005 - Canada, USA, Japan, (Nepal
)

Susan Elena (Vineyard Haven, MA, USA)
http://www.susanelena.com/
(E. does sculptural work in the ceramic medium, and is also a painter.)


Gen Kozuru (Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA) (Topsfield, MA, USA)
http://www.artcomplex.org/index.html
(Click "Exhibitions" for the "Shape of Tea" exhibition with preview of
t work by Gen Kozuru.) Also for Kozuru:
http://www.cairncroftsculpture.com/Fall2004/
http://www.trocadero.com/japanesepottery/items/294910/item294910store.html
http://www.e-yakimono.net/html/utsuwa-jt.html (R.Yellin's opinion)

Joan Carcia (Reading, MA, USA)
http://www.jcarcia.com/
(Coil built vessels with burnished terra sigillata surfaces that are
saggar-fired surrounded in organic materials, salts, and oxides, in a
gas kiln; slab built sculptural forms that are bisqued, then coated
with underglaze colours before being refired at a higher temperature.)
(Note: Her surname is -Carcia- with a "C", not Garcia with a "G")

Chris Moench (Dancing Dog Clayworks) (Bellingham, WA, USA)
http://www.axisofhope.net/
(Sgrafitto and oxide decorated cylindrical prayer wheels) (Makes a
virtue of the cracking that occurs when drying and firing his pieces
and they are quite beautiful objects)
http://store.ladieninscollectibles.com/cetibych.html
(Moench's series: "Ceramic Tiles of the Pacific Northwest")

Gloria Kennedy (Clay diversity) (Brookhaven, NY, USA)
http://www.claydiversity.com/index.html
(Hand built slab forms using stoneware, earthenware and porcelain)

Fukami Sueharu (Kyoto, Japan)
http://www.shermanleeinstitute.org/exhibition-spring03.html
(At The Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art, Hanford, CA)
http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/collection/asian/fukami.html
(At the Spencr Museum of Art, Kansas U., Lawrence, KS, USA)
http://www.asianart.com/articles/singer/5.html
(At the James Singer pages of Asian Arts, of Santa Fe NM, USA, and
Kathmandu, Nepal)

Emily Murphy, (Chicago, IL, USA)
http://sodafired.com/
(Very attractive functional work for the table and the home)

Cabbagetown Arts and Crafts (Toronto, ON, Canada)
(Randy Brown, Founder & Director)
http://www.cabbagetownartsandcrafts.org/
(Annual sale and Barnyard Arts, providing low cost courses in arts and
crafts at Riverdale Farm.) (There is a good video viewable with a 56k
modem or a broadband service; viewing requires Windows Media Player.
Click "About us" to view.)

Helen

Helen Bates
Belleville, Ontario, Canada
Clayarters' Websites: http://amsterlaw.com/clayart.html
Surfing with Helen Bates: http://amsterlaw.com/nell/nell.html
E-mail: nelbanell-REMOVE-this-TEXT-@yahoo.ca

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