Featured Ceramics | Moon Jars by Kang-hyo Lee
Both quiet and vital, powerful and with presence, Kang-hyo Lee’s moon jars are the intimate results of his search for ‘a beautiful life.’
Both quiet and vital, powerful and with presence, Kang-hyo Lee’s moon jars are the intimate results of his search for ‘a beautiful life.’
At the opening of his 3rd major exhibition here at Goldmark we talked to Jim Malone to hear his thoughts on a lifetime making pots.
Goldmark Gallery were proud to host a milestone exhibition of ceramics by Jim Malone, one of Britain’s top potters, in Uppingham on Saturday 17th September 2016.
First built in 2008, Rogers’ wood kiln now takes its place in his regular rotation of firings throughout the year, its occasional volatility and disobedient nature easily outweighed by the quality of work it produces.
Tucked away into the North-West corner of Cumbria lies Lessonhall, the small village where Jim Malone established his current pottery studio.
Jean-Nicolas Gérard has been working from his studio in the south of France for over 15 years now, producing loose, lively terre vernissée – the French term for slip-decorated earthenware – and enlivening the local Provençal traditions of slipware pottery.
Jean-Nicolas Gérard is a potter who understands the importance of pots that nourish. His work sings when used and brings life to their contents.
In this short article French potter Jean-Nicolas Gérard describes how he throws his glorious earthenware beakers with his typical loose touch.
The third post in our ceramics studio tour series, this week we’ll be looking at the gorgeous Somerset pottery of renowned British potter Mike Dodd.
In the third and final part of our How to Spot a Good Pot series we take a look at how character is at the heart of every good potter’s work.
The principle of ‘Adopt a Potter’ is simple: helping students of pottery find an experienced potter who can offer them an apprenticeship.
Having taught himself to throw in the early 1970s, using Bernard Leach’s A Potter’s Book as his only guide, Phil Rogers has over the years established himself as one of the world’s leading studio potters.
For Japan, the history of ceramics is the history of its belief systems, its cultural values – to a greater or lesser extent, it is the history of its people.
To celebrate gallery potter Lisa Hammond’s amazing new MBE award, we made a studio tour looking at Lisa’s fantastic Maze Hill Pottery.
In 2007 we first visited the Mashiko studio of internationally renowned Japanese potter Ken Matsuzaki to film the master at work.
Anne Mette’s studio is housed in an old 19th century farmhouse on the coast of Bornholm, a small Danish island in the Baltic Sea.
Back in 2012 at the book launch for our ceramics publication Phil Rogers: A Portfolio, potter Phil Rogers presented an in-depth lecture on his life and work and gave a fascinating throwing demonstration in our gallery front room.
Here we look at how French slipware potter Jean-Nicolas Gérard throws his small vases in his Valensole studio.
If the surface of a pot tells a story, decoration is the potter’s language, gestural marks and impressed shapes their vocabulary.
At the Goldmark Gallery we’re constantly handling pots. At work we sell and display them; at home we cook, eat and drink with them daily.
Here we take a look at Phil Rogers working with glazes in his studio. We see Phil applying Nuka, Shino and Tenmoku glazes to bisque-fired chawans, yunomis and bottles and experimenting with new glaze recipes and the peculiar behaviours and qualities of each glaze.
