The
Ceramics Book
An image of my Chthonic vessel is the cover photo for the new Ceramics Book, edited by Emmanuel Cooper and published by ceramic review publications.
Find information about 300 fellows of the Craft Potters Association. Details of each member and how to contact them.
To buy the book, visit Ceramic Review Publications
Searching
for Beauty
Letters
from a Collector to a Studio Potter
Hardcover, 352 pages
ISBN 0-9548840-6-X
Read more and to buy 'Searching for Beauty', visit Kestrel Books
'I
can think of no other contemporary writing that so thoughtfully links pots to
language, literature and philosophy, thereby placing pots squarely within the
framework of liberal academic discourse. All young potters should read these letters,
and all older ones too.'
Mark Hewitt, potter, Pittsboro, USA
'One
of the most thought-provoking cultural commentaries of our time, written with
great humour and self-awareness.'
Tom Ladislaw, novelist and ceramics
collector, UK
All
Fired Up - The Symbolism of Firing
This article is in the current issue
of Ceramics Art and Perception. Issue no 68.
In ages earlier than our own,
which were more keenly aware of symbolic correspondences, their feeling for this
origin of clay in the earth, symbol for the most concrete objective reality, which
was passed through fire, symbol for celestial transmutation, certainly contributed
a great deal to people's feeling for ceramic art.'¹
Philip Rawson, 'Ceramics'
pg23
To what extent have these symbolic correspondences changed or shifted from earliest times to our own? ......to read more see Ceramics Art & Perception
This article appeared in Ceramic Review No. 215. Sept/Oct 2005
When selling a teapot recently I mentioned that I take care that my teapots should pour really well. 'I'm not going to use it. I use a teabag in a mug' was the response...read more