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surfing with helen bates - urls from early november 2002

updated sun 10 nov 02

 

Helen Bates on sat 9 nov 02


Surfing with Helen Bates - urls from early November 2002

These sites are ones I happened upon for the first time very recently. =20


Two women potters from opposite sides (and ends) of the world: =20

Colleen Waata-Ulrich (New Zealand)=20
http://www.northland.ac.nz/facarts/visualarts/artgrads2000/colleen/sac=
red.htm=20
A maori who makes ritual vessels and sculptures of local clays and sands.=
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Work is mainly in warm tan colours from wood firing. Some pieces smoke f=
ired.=20

Anne McLellan (Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada)=20
http://www.annemclellan-ceramics.com/=20
Pleasant wheelthrown red or white earthenware studio work featuring=20
functional pottery and using Majolica glazes and commercial stains.=20
Other pieces, often with a sculptural aspect may be partially or complete=
ly=20
surfaced in terra sigillata, or in coloured slips and clear glaze.=20


... and one who travelled from one side of the world to the other: =20

Thiv=F4 (Key West, Florida, USA, born born Nguyen Thi Vo in Saigon, Viet=
nam)=20
http://www.gingerbreadsquaregallery.com/Exhibitions/ThivoExb02/thivoex=
b02.html=20
Richly coloured free-form and often pierced bowls are a feature of this a=
rtists work.=20


For the antiques and collectables afficionado: =20

Sindelar & O'Brien Antiques ( Mount Dora, Florida, USA)=20
http://www.sindelarandobrien.com/default.htm=20
Marvellous site for those readers who collect American Art Pottery, inclu=
ding=20
some American Studio pottery, as well as French and Scandinavian Art Pott=
ery,=20
Art Glass and Arts & Crafts jewellery. A very educational site as well. =
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Here are three galleries featuring contemporary clay artists: =20

New Morning Gallery (Biltmore Village of Asheville, North Carolina, USA)=20
http://www.newmorninggallerync.com/ceramics.html=20
It's always nice to find another retail gallery featuring pottery online.=
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Too bad the images can't be enlarged though.=20
Jan Hoyman and Doug Browe, Bill Campbell, Aletha Rector, Tom Homann,=20
Kerry Gonzalez, amongst other well known potters.=20
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By Hand South (Decatur, Georgia, USA)=20
http://www.byhandsouth.com/=20
Constance DeKlewa, Dennis Bern, Bill Campbell, Fred Wiesener, Wayne B=
ates, =20
Charles Tefft, Sandra West, Siegele & Haley, Karen Gargiulo=20
Another "Bricks & Mortar" gallery - this one exclusively dealing in clay.=
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Boone=92s Creek Potter=92s Gallery (Johnson, Tennessee, USA)=20
http://www.boonescreekpottery.com/=20
Another pottery only gallery with a huge collection of makers represented=
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Again, thumbnail images only. At least 5 pages of artists, 2 or 3 to a p=
age.=20


A good looking ceramics department: =20
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Waubonsee Community College (Waubonsee, Illinois, USA)=20
http://chat.wcc.cc.il.us/~djeppese/index.html=20
Doug Jeppesen, Ceramics Instructor,=20
Click "Ceramics Page" for very good pictures of the school's studios.=20
The facilities appear first rate.=20


Animal sculpture: =20

Pietro Giuseppe Zanolli (Nove IV, Italia)=20
http://www.ceramics.it/zanolli=20
Realistic and stylized animals sculpted in clay.=20
Three-dimensional and tile work.=20


Are you a "Mud Hen"? =20

Here is "A Mud Hen's Lament" (a poem) (credit not given)=20
http://www.mastersargentmolds.com/mhlament.htm=20
Page courtesy of Tom Sargent of Master Sargent Molds (LaBelle, Florida, U=
SA)=20
Tom makes custom molds for ceramicists such as: Patti Baumgartner,=20
a blind artist from Juneau, Alaska, for Patricia Probst and also for=20
Scott Causey. Scott has his own web site at: http://www.scott.causey.com=
/=20
The thumbnail images in Scott's page may not load, but click on them anyw=
ay=20
and the enlarged images will load without any problem. =20


Happy surfing. =20

Helen=20
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Web - http://www.geocities.com/nelbanell/=20
PMI Online - http://www.potterymaking.org/pmionline.html=20
Clayarters' Urls - http://amsterlaw.com/clayart.html =20
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