Helen Bates on wed 28 feb 07
New Zealand plus Fair Trade pottery from Peru, Nicaragua,
Costa Rica & Colombia
Surfing with Helen Bates - February 27, 2007 - UK, Canada, Spain, USA,
New Zealand plus Fair Trade pottery from Peru, Nicaragua, Costa Rica &
Colombia
Have fun with these...
Peggy Ahlgren (Wilson Creek Pottery) (Spring Green, WI, USA)
http://wilsoncreekpottery.com/
(functional stoneware including a number of specialty items, including,
for instance a double nut bowl for pistachios and their shells)
Jenny Smack (Squamish, BC, Canada)
http://members.shaw.ca/jennysmack/
(American-born salt-glaze potter who textures her wheel-thrown pots with
various natural and found objects)
Tom Trubshaw (NW Pottery) (Seattle, WA, USA)
http://nwstudiopottery.com/
(vintage and contemporary Northwest American studio pottery of
Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana)
(Proprietor of the bricks and mortar "Aging Fancies Antiques and Vintage
items" store in Seattle)
Trenton, Capp (Bloomsburg, PA, USA)
http://cappspotts.com/
(An excellent and a prolific maker of individual pieces of functional
stoneware pottery with well integrated traditional glazes, form and
decoration.)
Len Castle (many links available) (Auckland, New Zealand)
http://www.art-newzealand.com/Issues1to40/books0403.htm
(Castle's review of "Hamada, Potter" by Bernard Leach) (I happen to have
a first edition of this book...)
The Mint Condition Gala 2006 (Charlotte, NC, USA)
http://mintconditiongala.org/
(to benefit the Mint Museum of Craft + Design in Charlotte, North Carolina)
Manises School of Ceramics (Escuela Superior de Ceramica de Manises)
(ESCM) (Manises, Valencia, Spain)
http://www.esceramica.com/
Kathy, Barrie, and Lee Cartledge (Bentham Pottery, Oysterber Farm)
(Bentham, Yorkshire, England, UK)
http://www.benthampottery.co
(Solid, straight-ahead functional pottery) (includes salt pigs, chip and
dip units, and a similar piece intended for pistachios and their
shells) (Must be the year of the Pigstachio!)
La Vida Verde (Freeland, WA, USA)
http://lavidaverde.com/
(The company, a member of a group called "The Fair Trade Federation"
wholesales handmade Ceramics from Peru, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and
Colombia)
Enjoy...
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Helen Bates
Belleville, Ontario, Canada
Clayarters' URLs: http://amsterlaw.com/clayart/
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