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About ourselves
Its ages since we talked about ourselves, where we lived, what we do.
Bubbles and I were discussing it in the "revive a dead dinner bell" thread. We thought it was a good ideas, so I will start. I live in New Zealand in the Wellington Region. http://www.wellingtonnz.com/ A site about wellington. Unfortunately I do not have a website, my 20 yr old son has been meaning to make one for me, he does computer programming, but its a bit like the plumbers house with the leaking taps ) I teach pottery at a Waldorf (Steiner) school to 13 -14 year olds. Also to adults a local art centre. I make one off pieces, usually thrown and very decorated, sometimes altered. I enter these into exhibitions. I have no intention or desire to attempt mass production. I belong to quite a few pottery organisations, one of them being The New Zealand Society of Potters. Here is their website http://nzpotters.com/ Looking forward to hearing about lots of other people ) Annemarie |
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Good idea, the group always changes a bit.
I'm just starting my 30th year as a small-time production potter in Idaho. I put more information than most people would want to know about me on my website. Brad Sondahl -- For my pottery how-to videos, original art, music, pottery, and literature, visit my homepage http://sondahl.com To reply to me directly, don't forget to take out the "garbage" from my address. ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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Hi,
My name is Andrea, and I live in Perth, Western Australia. I am a child care worker by the first profession, and ceramic artist by the second. I am lucky to combine the two as I teach clay art to 3-5 year olds in local day care centres, school and libraries (older kids as well, as the opportunity arises). I am involved in community art projects as well as making my own work for exhibitions. I am also a member of ceramic groups, the top of the list is Clay Feet Exhibiting Group which is very active in finding new avenues for promoting and exhibiting ceramics to the new audiences. The group web site is in the making, but you can see the unfinished version at http://home.iprimus.com.au/vandvin/ with images on "about us" page and "artists" page. As I am involved in making the web page I would also appreciate your comments. I love experimental work & experimenting with glazes. Mostly I work with slipcast porcelain. I am not very active on this forum, but I do read it regularly and enjoy being a part of it. Sometimes I wish it was a bit more active, but I guess that we all get too busy... cheers, Andrea "Brad Sondahl" wrote in message ... Good idea, the group always changes a bit. I'm just starting my 30th year as a small-time production potter in Idaho. I put more information than most people would want to know about me on my website. Brad Sondahl -- For my pottery how-to videos, original art, music, pottery, and literature, visit my homepage http://sondahl.com To reply to me directly, don't forget to take out the "garbage" from my address. ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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well i live in claremont, california usa - seems to be a lot of potters
around here! my website (posted from someone i never me except on line) is http://www.dataflo.net/~mpurintun/sg_pottery_mugs.htm i'm a degreed engineer who's done design work from warheard fuzes to rocket motor igniters, to tractor parts, handgrips, joysticks, lighting fixtures, and now Jacuzzi Spa designs. ~ pottery dropped my blood pressure significantly some 18 years ago... i took my 1st class some 25 years ago to "meet cool chicks", and eventually taught it in adult ed maybe 8 years. now i do it totally for fun in a well equiped studio. i like vessels the most. greek styles, american indian, korean. and try fountains as a way to actually DO SOMETHING with all these vessels i keep making... i'll also build another patio cover one of these days to hang more planters off of. the 1st one is pretty full. i'm really hooked on using texture in the pieces & designed & built a good many texture tools. ~ and maybe i spend more time then i should on line gathering pictures to wall paper my workshop ceiling with... see ya steve Stephanie Coleman wrote: I am fairly new pottery, having gotten into it as a stress reducer from corporate life in 1999. I do a little throwing (some call it turning in the SE US) but mostly handbuilding. Last year I left the corporate world behind and have promised myself to focus on pottery and gardening. Luckily, I don't have to make .mortgage payments out of it, so I sell my work to cover costs plus a little profit...I get my kicks from having folks like my work. I have a web site www.fishstixonline.com that is under renovation, but you can see some stuff. I have exciting news - I entered my first juried artshow with one of my large sculptures. (It's not on the website yet) Anyway the show was for all visual media and I won second place overall. has a little cash prize. I hope they buy the piece for their little garden though - but they probably won't. I hope you don't me blowing my horn I have never won anything like this before and I am really excited! -- Stephanie Coleman University of Phoenix Online alt email: 706.467.9579 "annemarie" wrote in message ... Its ages since we talked about ourselves, where we lived, what we do. Bubbles and I were discussing it in the "revive a dead dinner bell" thread. We thought it was a good ideas, so I will start. I live in New Zealand in the Wellington Region. http://www.wellingtonnz.com/ A site about wellington. Unfortunately I do not have a website, my 20 yr old son has been meaning to make one for me, he does computer programming, but its a bit like the plumbers house with the leaking taps ) I teach pottery at a Waldorf (Steiner) school to 13 -14 year olds. Also to adults a local art centre. I make one off pieces, usually thrown and very decorated, sometimes altered. I enter these into exhibitions. I have no intention or desire to attempt mass production. I belong to quite a few pottery organisations, one of them being The New Zealand Society of Potters. Here is their website http://nzpotters.com/ Looking forward to hearing about lots of other people ) Annemarie |
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I started doing pottery in San Bernardino, California (U.S. of A - [I'm a
flaming libertarian, Liberal]) in the 70s with Ken Reed, a student of Paul Soldner, as my instructor. Ken along with Che his wife were and are to me the symbols of the art and craft. I moved to the east coast with my husband in 1979 and began earning my living writing programs for research in cognitive psychology. Whenever I could I would find a way to play with clay but with the demands of work, children, home construction, etc. it became the poor stepchild that was badly neglected. For years I have threatened to quit my job and pot full time but for years my husband has pointed out that our grad students and our children would be unable to finish their education without me (for programming and finance respectively). This year I bought myself a kiln and have turned half of the basement into my studio. For years I have always done volunteer work in the various studios I have worked in because I love the entire process of working with clay. This Spring however, I had my first entire independent complete production cycle and it was a gas (well actually electric... ). I have mixed my programming and my love of the craft by writing a simplified glazing program. If you want it you can contact me at .. I would like to get feedback on how it isn't user friendly and what it lacks if you decide to play with it. You would think that since computer programming has been my livelihood for decades that I would have a web page but that too has gone to the back burner. So much to do - so little time in life.... "annemarie" wrote in message ... Its ages since we talked about ourselves, where we lived, what we do. Bubbles and I were discussing it in the "revive a dead dinner bell" thread. We thought it was a good ideas, so I will start. I live in New Zealand in the Wellington Region. http://www.wellingtonnz.com/ A site about wellington. Unfortunately I do not have a website, my 20 yr old son has been meaning to make one for me, he does computer programming, but its a bit like the plumbers house with the leaking taps ) I teach pottery at a Waldorf (Steiner) school to 13 -14 year olds. Also to adults a local art centre. I make one off pieces, usually thrown and very decorated, sometimes altered. I enter these into exhibitions. I have no intention or desire to attempt mass production. I belong to quite a few pottery organisations, one of them being The New Zealand Society of Potters. Here is their website http://nzpotters.com/ Looking forward to hearing about lots of other people ) Annemarie |
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I have been reading this newsgroup for years. I am a high school drawing
and ceramics teacher in upstate New York and have been active in ceramics for about seven years. Most of my work is one of kind functional wheel thrown pieces but recently have been doing quite a bit of figural sculpture. I don't have a web site yet, but plan on one someday. I am currently trying to set up my own studio (in the basement) but the rest of the house renovations seem to consume my weekends. I am constantly trying to accumulate new ideas and techniques and this past year took part in my first aborigama firing. I recently built a raku kiln and can't wait to fire it ( saving up for the burners). Well that's me and I just wanted to thank the group for all the great info and inspiration. John |
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Go blow your own horn, I did when I won an award last year too. Its really
exciting ) So wonderful to have your work recognised and all your time vindicated ) Congratulations In NZ we call making on the wheel throwing, then trimming when leather hard turning ) A "Stephanie Coleman" wrote in message ... I am fairly new pottery, having gotten into it as a stress reducer from corporate life in 1999. I do a little throwing (some call it turning in the SE US) but mostly handbuilding. Last year I left the corporate world behind and have promised myself to focus on pottery and gardening. Luckily, I don't have to make .mortgage payments out of it, so I sell my work to cover costs plus a little profit...I get my kicks from having folks like my work. I have a web site www.fishstixonline.com that is under renovation, but you can see some stuff. I have exciting news - I entered my first juried artshow with one of my large sculptures. (It's not on the website yet) Anyway the show was for all visual media and I won second place overall. has a little cash prize. I hope they buy the piece for their little garden though - but they probably won't. I hope you don't me blowing my horn I have never won anything like this before and I am really excited! -- Stephanie Coleman University of Phoenix Online alt email: 706.467.9579 "annemarie" wrote in message ... Its ages since we talked about ourselves, where we lived, what we do. Bubbles and I were discussing it in the "revive a dead dinner bell" thread. We thought it was a good ideas, so I will start. I live in New Zealand in the Wellington Region. http://www.wellingtonnz.com/ A site about wellington. Unfortunately I do not have a website, my 20 yr old son has been meaning to make one for me, he does computer programming, but its a bit like the plumbers house with the leaking taps ) I teach pottery at a Waldorf (Steiner) school to 13 -14 year olds. Also to adults a local art centre. I make one off pieces, usually thrown and very decorated, sometimes altered. I enter these into exhibitions. I have no intention or desire to attempt mass production. I belong to quite a few pottery organisations, one of them being The New Zealand Society of Potters. Here is their website http://nzpotters.com/ Looking forward to hearing about lots of other people ) Annemarie |
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If I were not so lazy, I would go hunting but... what is aborigama (and
actually I would rather hear it from you in any case)? "J and K" wrote in message news I have been reading this newsgroup for years. I am a high school drawing and ceramics teacher in upstate New York and have been active in ceramics for about seven years. Most of my work is one of kind functional wheel thrown pieces but recently have been doing quite a bit of figural sculpture. I don't have a web site yet, but plan on one someday. I am currently trying to set up my own studio (in the basement) but the rest of the house renovations seem to consume my weekends. I am constantly trying to accumulate new ideas and techniques and this past year took part in my first aborigama firing. I recently built a raku kiln and can't wait to fire it ( saving up for the burners). Well that's me and I just wanted to thank the group for all the great info and inspiration. John |
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Hi,
I'm Steve Mills, and I live in Bath, UK. Apart from a brief period teaching I've been involved in Clay in this area since 1967. I did 18 years self-employed production of domestic and Restaurant wares, and then moved sideways into being a Ceramic Supplier with my Wife Kate, in 1979. I have always been a maker and will be till I drop. I stopped taking orders for pottery in '85 and now do my own thing. This year I shall cease to be a Supplier and do more Pottery, computing and Music. I Wood-fire with a little salt and I'm a self confessed throwing junkie! Steve In article , annemarie annemarie.butler@paradise ..net.nz writes Its ages since we talked about ourselves, where we lived, what we do. Bubbles and I were discussing it in the "revive a dead dinner bell" thread. We thought it was a good ideas, so I will start. -- Steve Mills Bath UK |
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