Collaborating With Uncertainty – Towards Visual Complexity
by Sandy LockwoodThis article has been adapted from a talk given at the Confluence Woodfiring Symposium, Helena Montana October 2018.
Clay Man’s Capsule
When I visit schools, the children run up to me calling out “clay man”. I was in high school when I worked for my teacher at his shop throwing planters and knew I wanted to be a potter from when I was…
Wood Firing: Taming A Feral Aesthetic
A spirit of discovery characterized the 1970s enlivening the curiosity of potters, and wood-firing became entrained in the air we breathed. We wondered what to think of work that was sometimes blatant…
Don’t Make it Pretty
by Jack TroyMary Bowron (1933–2017), was an intensely private ceramic artist, painter, and printmaker, who lived to work, doing so until a fall in 2015 left her unable to pursue her passion for clay sculpture, an…
The Danish Clay Gulag: GULDAGERGAARD
It’s the light that first strikes as different. It often carries a bluish grey cast that colours things a bit like an old reproduction of Van Gogh’s Wheatfield with Cyprus, that’s been up on the wall…
