Anne Mette Hjortshøj considers one of her trademark oval baking dishes. She describes the construction of this simple cylinder, the decoration and how the two applied slips react in the salt kiln to give interesting results.
Salt Glaze
Talking Pots | Anne Mette Hjortshøj | Plates
In this short film Anne Mette Hjortshøj gives a detailed description of how she constructs, decorates and fires her hand built plates. She discusses the important role that wood firing has when it works with her applied decoration resulting in unique pieces that still work together to form a set.
Documentary | Walter Keeler | Treasures of the Everyday
Walter Keeler is a British studio potter, born in London in 1942. He attended Harrow School of Art, London where he was trained by Michael Casson. He established his first pottery at Bledlow Bridge, Buckinghamshire in 1965 then moved to his current studio in Penallt Wales, where he lives with his potter wife Madoline. He was professor of Ceramics at the University of the West of England and in 2007 was named Welsh Artist of the Year.
Keeler makes salt glaze pottery influenced by early Staffordshire Creamware. Writer Oliver Watson described him as ‘one of the most important and influential potters of the 1980s’. Keeler’s work is held in a number of public collections including Victoria & Albert Museum, National Museum Wales, American Craft Museum, New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA and the Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
Exhibition | Phil Rogers | Earthly Matters
Phil Rogers, one of the outstanding British potters of his generation, exhibited at Goldmark Gallery from 16 May 2020. This was the 5th major exhibition of his work at Goldmark and each show has built on the success of the one before. Goldmark was closed because of the Coronavirus however the exhibition was available virtually to the public with an online tour and new films featuring both an interview with Rogers and footage of him at work. The exhibition saw the publication of a new catalogue written by the Rev. Richard Coles, Vicar of Finedon, former member of 1980s pop group The Communards and presenter of Radio 4 programme Saturday Live. The film shows the culmination of an extraordinary career in ceramics by a potter who forged his own path pushing the boundaries of the traditions he was rooted in.
Documentary | Phil Rogers | Drawing in the Air
Filmed on location in Wales, this documentary follows Phil Rogers as he prepares for his 2014 ceramics exhibition at Goldmark Gallery – his first major show in 6 years.
The film shows Rogers at work in and around his studio in Rhayader, Mid-Wales. It shows him throwing cups, bowls and jugs, glazing and decorating and opening his oil and wood-fired kilns.
Rogers discusses his life as a studio potter and the challenges involved. The film also shows a range of his current work.
Talking Pots | Anne Mette Hjortshøj | Lidded Jar
Anne Mette Hjortshøj describes a lidded jar, a relatively new form in her repertoire. She reveals the Korean inspiration for the glaze colour that she achieves using local materials that she collects herself from the Bornholm countryside.
Talking Pots | Anne Mette Hjortshøj | Salt Glaze Colander
Anne Mette Hjortshøj takes a simple functional object, a colander, and demonstrates how stacking in the kiln impacts on the colour and textural effects the potter can achieve on the glaze surface in a salt kiln.
Talking Pots | Anne Mette Hjortshøj | Salt Glaze Teapot & Decoration
Anne Mette Hjortshøj shows us one of her typical salt glaze teapots and considers the importance of decoration – a little bit of something to tease the imagination leaving the viewer to complete the story.
Talking Pots | Anne Mette Hjortshøj | Oval Teapots
Danish potter Anne Mette Hjortshøj talks about the making of her oval teapots and being curious and asking “What if ?” She discusses the important balancing act of form and function and the use of stamp design as texture with salt glaze.
Talking Pots | Anne Mette Hjortshøj | Oval Dishes
Bornholm potter Anne Mette Hjortshøj explains how her trademark oval dishes were born and discusses the use of texture and stamp decoration with salt-glaze ware.
Talking Pots | Anne Mette Hjortshøj | Hollow Dishes
Danish potter Anne Mette Hjortshøj reveals the inspiration behind her incredible bird bath constructed vessels and describes the depth achieved when layering glazes in a second firing.
In Conversation | An Interview with Potter Walter Keeler
Ahead of our major exhibition of ceramics by renowned British potter Walter Keeler, we headed over to Monmouth to meet him in his studio.
Making | Studio Tour: Anne Mette Hjortshøj and the Island of Bornholm
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.
We Love Clay Guide | Buying Pots: A Brief Glossary of Glazes
When you first start collecting pots, keeping track of the many different glazes on different pots can be more than a little tricky.