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surfing with helen bates - april 20, 2007 - usa sites

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Helen Bates on sat 21 apr 07


Surfing with Helen Bates - April 20, 2007 - USA sites

Hi All,

Surfing recently brought me to...

Kathy Whitley (Pink Hill, NC, USA)
http://www.leatherandpottery.com/
(Gas-fired functional pottery with carving, etching, painting, or piercing)

Rinny Ryan (Little Deer Isle, ME, USA)
http://www.harborfarm.com/store/rinnyryan_pottery.html
(Ash glazed functional Stoneware gas fired with wood containing the
remnants of iron nails)

Paul Anthony (Anthony Stoneware - Solstitium) (Burnsville, NC, USA)
http://www.anthonystoneware.com/
(Wholesale and Retail functional high fired stoneware) (good menu system)

Rob Grimes (Tested By Fire Pottery) (San Antonio, TX, USA)
http://www.testedbyfire.com/
(Production Stoneware for home and church)

Hanna Lore Hombordy (Ventura, CA, USA)
http://www.vcpottersguild.com/gallery/h_l_hombordy/index.html
(Member, Ventura County Potters Guild)
http://www.ci.ventura.ca.us/depts/arts_culture/pub_art/muni_collect/muni_lore_hombordy.asp
(Slab built sculptural container: "End of the Rainbow in clay,
underglaze and glaze, fired with nails)
http://www.ci.ventura.ca.us/depts/arts_culture/cultural_fund/resources/Awardees.pdf
(PDF)
(Go to Pg. 4 for "Green House, in clay assembled with nails,
underglazes, acrylic paint)
http://www.potterymaking.org/pmipc/July0404.pdf (PDF)
(Article: "Fantasy Creatures", Pottery Making Illustrated, July Issue,
2004)
http://www.potterymaking.org/issues/Spring2001/buildingwithnails.asp
(Article: "Building with Nails", Pottery Making Illustrated,
March/April Issue, 2001)

Li-jung Chen (San Diego, CA, USA)
http://www.sandiegopottersguild.org/chenli.html
> Li's pots often are thrown and altered, with added on appendages
> and/or handcarving. She likes to enrich surface texture using
> rolled on or stamped pattern, carving, or forcing a wet leather
> hard pot from the inside outward to create cracking. She also
> experiments with glazes. Li does raku, sagar firing but the
> majority of her pots are fired to cone 10 in gas or electric kilns.
http://www.lchenceramics.com/
(Chen Li-jung and her husband Lloyd Chen are both prolific potters,
especially Lloyd, and both do amazing [and quite different] work.) (I
don't think I've had that breathless feeling before from saggar-fired
ware that I just got looking at some of Lloyd's vases.)

Bill Gossman (Gossman Pottery) (New London, MN, USA)
http://www.gossmanpottery.com/
(Once fired functional pottery, mostly wheel-thrown, and fired in a wood
fueled, kiln he built himself)
http://www.gossmanpottery.com/throwing.htm
(Throwing demo slides showing Bill using an inverted sawblade to finish
the shoulder/neck interface of a large vase)

Al Qoyawayma (Prescott, AZ , USA)
http://www.alqpottery.com/contacts2.html
(Interesting triangular forms in many of his contemporary Hopi pots)

Anon... Helen
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Helen Bates
Belleville, Ontario, Canada
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