Helen Bates on wed 2 aug 06
Malaysia
Surfing with Helen Bates - August 1, 2006 - USA, France, Canada, Malaysia
Susan Spear (Glen Arbor, MI, USA)
http://www.artistsnorth.com/spear/
(Textured, glazed low and high fired hand built vessels and=20
anthropomorphic rabbit sculptures) (The artist states that her vessels=20
are female metaphors: containers, receptacles, and protectors.)
Norleen Nosri (b. Malaysia, lives currently in Columbia, MO, USA)
http://www.nngallery.com.my/exh/73/
(Student at the University of Missouri-Columbia) (This page displays her=20
"Storied Teapots", including her stacked teapots, which were exhibited=20
in Kuala Lumpur in 2004)
Howard Penning (Vancouver BC, Canada)
http://gawkingatthecreativemind.squarespace.com/
(Canadian artist whose current body of work consists of low relief,=20
mixed media paintings made mostly from plaster and clay, in which=20
"texture has come to have almost as much importance as colour.")
Foutah Com (Africa)
(African art and craft by Africans and artists of African descent, or=20
those strongly influenced by the art of Africa) Ceramists include:
Claire Galopin (Paris, France)
http://www.foutah.com/clairegalopin1.htm
Maurice Lwambwa Tshany (Montreal, QC, Canada)
(Born in the Democratic Republic of Congo)
http://www.foutah.com/maurice_lwambwa_tshany.htm
(Ceramic masks in the tradition of the African Congo)
A bit about vegetable oil firing:
John Britt (Bakersville, NC, USA)
Ceramics Monthly PDF article: "Firing with Vegetable Oil"
http://www.ceramicsmonthly.org/cmpc/richcontent/apr03_3941.pdf
John Britt's home page: http://www.johnbrittpottery.com/
Charles Timm-Ballard (Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, USA)
http://www.whitman.edu/content/news/BackyardArtStudio
(He's on faculty at Whitman College, Walla Walla, teaching ceramics, and=20
is building a prototype for [his] studio=E2=80=99s kiln from recycled she=
lves=20
and kiln bricks with the help of his advanced ceramics students. The=20
kiln, which burns recycled vegetable oil is Timm-Ballard=E2=80=99s origin=
al=20
design.)
Kent McLaughlin and Suze Lindsay (Bakersville, NC, USA)
http://forkmountainpottery.net/
Kent and his wife Suze Lindsay own and operate Fork Mountain Pottery in=20
Bakersville NC. "Kent works primarily in porcelain, making pots for=20
daily living and experimenting with traditional Eastern glazes [...]." )=20
(Kent also makes brushes of wild animal hair and home-grown bamboo.)
[Suze's] work includes using surface decoration to enhance form by=20
patterning and painting slips and glazes for firing in the salt kiln.")
http://www.ncpotterycenter.com/programs.htm
("[Kent] fires celadon and shino glazes in a gas reduction kiln,=20
preheating with propane, then firing with recycled vegetable oil and=20
waste oil burners.")
Helen
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Helen Bates
Belleville, Ontario, Canada
Urls and photos of Clayart participants past and present:
http://amsterlaw.com/clayart
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