Monday, 9 February 2009
Alyson Stanfield’s workshop was well worth every minute of my time! It met all of my expectations and more. I have been working my way through Alyson’s book “I’d Rather Be i the Studio! The Artist’s No-Excuse Guide to Self-Promotion” but as one sometimes gets with a self-help book was stuck. I’m unstuck now [...]
Saturday, 13 December 2008
Coil just above the rim of the mold.
The Sunday after Thanksgiving found me and a small group of local potters participating in a hands on workshop with a group of Mata Ortiz potters at Crystal Creek farm in the Santa Cruz mountains. First we watched the technique of hand building the pot [...]
Sunday, 14 September 2008
I had the opportunity yesterday to attend a workshop given by Masakazu Kusakabe and Marc Lancet on Japanese Wood-Fired Ceramics. I almost didn’t sign up for this in spite of my love of both the forms and the firing technique. The usual list of excuses – too busy, evening dinner engagement, should be cleaning [...]