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clay surfing urls - found while "cleaning out my attic"

updated mon 1 jul 02

 

Helen Bates on sun 30 jun 02


I found this file from sites visited months ago and never edited until today.

Anita Feng (Washington State, USA)
http://www.scn.org/~bg599/ocarinas.html
Wheel thrown, tuned, necklace style (4-holed) ocarinas.
Soprano, alto, and tenor ocarinas of unglazed terracotta and glazed stoneware.
Brief sound files of each.
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Walter Keeler
http://www.aber.ac.uk/artscentre/cat/wk.htm
Senior British potter
Very strong design in salt fired unflanged tray with perpendicular loop handles.
Also shown: very interesting jug form (not salt fired)
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Sandra Barnett
http://www.hvaf.org.uk./barnett.html
Whimsical but well-handled teapot and cups
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Carol Fleming USA)
http://www.guild.com/servlet/Guild/ArtTeamPage?atid=4655
Outdoor sculptural ceramic forms, made in sections and assembled.
Columns and forms based on the theme of the egg.
Strong textural interest.
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Japanese Raku interest
Two international sites with info and images pertaining to Japanese Raku:
The Faenza Museum of Ceramics
http://www.racine.ra.it/micfaenza/e
(English home page)
The museum's raku article:
http://www.racine.ra.it/micfaenza/e/rakuceramic.htm
Teabowl image at the site:
http://www.racine.ra.it/micfaenza/raku/raku00.htm
Gabor Terebess
http://www.terebess.hu/ (Click on link "ENGLISH")
Article: JAPANESE RAKU AND ITS AMERICAN RENAISSANCE
http://www.terebess.hu/terebessgabor/raku.html
Article: BREAKING CERAMICS
http://www.terebess.hu/terebessgabor/ceramics.html
(Ceramics Monthly, Volume 29, Number 2, February 1981, pp 27-31.)
SLIP CASTING Tactile Rendering as Art
http://www.terebess.hu/terebessgabor/slipcasting.html
Some Terebess teabowls
(At the moment, most of the images linked to the index aren't available.)
http://www.terebess.hu/keramia/
For more Raku, note also the links below, to Michael Cordary and Ron Mello.
(These are retail only.)

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Keith Herchenroether
http://www.herksworks.com/
"Herk's Works"
Production wheel thrown functional ware.
Has a varied line of "face" mugs that have strong "personalities".
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Jackie Seaton, Potter, Perth Ontario, Canada
http://www.riverguild.com/jackie/index.html
At Riverguild Fine Crafts
http://www.riverguild.com/
Good functional saltglazed studio pottery with a distinctive style and excellent colour development.
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Ron Mello, Michael Cordary, Stephen Sell
These three studio potters have their own web sites but they also sell through Ebay.
Ron Mello has the most sophisticated account with Ebay, followed by Michael Cordary.
Stephen Sell's work seems to be handled through a dealer.
You can sometimes see what the items recently listed have sold for.
Click on the link for feedback about the seller.
This feature dependson whether comments have been invited and have been made.
Ron Mello
http://home.attbi.com/~rmello1/
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/rmello1/
Michael Cordary
http://www.mjcpottery.com/
http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=m.j.cpottery&include=0&since=-1&sort=3&rows=25

Stephen Sell
http://www.stephensell.com/
http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=contemporaryceramics&include=0&since=-1&sort=3&rows=25
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