togei wrote:Looks like you had a lot of fun. Thanks for the nice photos.
It was a good trip. Thanks.
best,
...john
togei wrote:Looks like you had a lot of fun. Thanks for the nice photos.
Thanks!!!Saladin wrote:Congrats John, looks like a great show!
andrzej bero wrote:thanks for sharing, very interesting descriptions too.
iannon,iannon wrote:John..oddlt enough..out of all the dozens and dozens of potters shops in Seagrove NC one of the few I walked into was a guy that knew you from New Hampshire! he said you influenced his Sake ware making. Jeff Brown..of Jeff Brown Pottery. small world.
He had somne Very nice pieces for Sake! Beautiful. just werent quite what I needed/wanted unfortunately or I may have had to empty my pockets of cash there! Yunomi's he didnt have at the timeJBaymore wrote: He makes some darn nice pots.
best,
.................john
JBaymore wrote:Summer NHIA 2001 Making Handbuilt Chawan Course
Chanoyu at New Hampshire Institute of Art
Once again I was teaching a seminar type course called "Making Handbuilt Chawan". The 7 students participating in the class made a series of bowls specific to actual tea ceremony use (as opposed the the more usual American casual "toss off" of the whole teabowl concept). They utilized pinching and carving to form them, they were glazed, and gas fired to Orton cone 10.
As part of the final critique of their work, we held a very infomal tea ceremony, which is more correctly maybe called 茶会 or Chakai rather than Chanoyu. We did only usucha. We used the 立礼 ( Ryurei) style of ceremony as the basis for the temae, which is suited for sitting at western tables and chairs.
All of the chawan used were made by the students. Everyone got a chance to make and serve tea in their own bowl.
The furo was one of my pieces, the chagama was a Meiji one from my collection, the natsume was a contemporary Kyoto lacquer piece from my collection, and the chashaku was a contemporary Tsugaru lacquered one from my collection. The hishaku and chasen were from my collection and were "general pieces" brough home from Japan (nothing really special). The futaoki was a Tokoname piece, and the mizusashi and kensui were mine also.
So a few more potters now have a little understanding of tea ceremony and teawares (see page 3 in this thread for last summer's images). Always a fun course to teach.
best,
.............john
Lucy about to clean the natsume for Gene, while Paul studies the temae. Lucy intensely concentrating on making that important Hiragana の. Lucy about to place the bowl in front of Gene.
Winner TBD and announced later!!!It is thrown, and wood fired. Smooth white stoneware body. 8.5 cm dia and 7 cm h. Weight 160 grams. This piece I do not have the kiln firing record for, but I think it was the summer 2010 firing. Glaze both interior and out is American Shino but it is fired mainly in oxidation, so I am thinking from chamber 4 which is where I do that mostly (for oribe glazes mainly). It has substantial flyash over the shino glaze and some nice flashing on the exposed clay foot.