My garden art installation “Spread Your Wings” is accepted in The Association of Clay and Glass Artists of California “ACGA” first online exhibition.
https://acga.net/garden-art-an-acga-online-exhibition/
Please, enjoy the exhibition!
Horsehair Raku “Spread Your Wings” installation.
A new customer, Peter Schotman, who bought the big wing-set of the series of “Spread your Wings” , felt inspired by my works to write a poem about it (it is in Dutch) (He allowed me to put this poem and his name on my website). I feel very honored:
Op Vleugelen
van verlangen vlieg ik
-nog in veilige dekking-
een ongewisse toekomst
tegemoet
ben ik wel vorstbestendig
en coranoproof of
verspreid ik onnozele gans
de Chinese vogelpest
in dit arboretum van
eeuwenoude bomen
de moderne tijd haar
bespaard gebleven
geef mijn harde inborst
de kracht haar roots
te volgen met een boodschap
van verwachting en openheid
PETER SCHOTMAN
“Spread your Wings” in Von Gimborn Arboretum National Tree Museum in Doorn
My “In-Motion” Horsehair Plate is accepted in the Clay Gallery “Klei Galerij” with topic “EAT/ETEN” in the Dutch “CLAY/KLEI” Magazine of the month 2020 November-December.
Yesterday, the exhibition opened for the 40th anniversary for the Dutch clay magazine “KLEI”. The title is: “Clay in motion”.
I am one of the 40 accepted artists.
As of yesterday you can see my work at a cultural center HUIS 73, Hinthamerstraat 74, 5211MR in the city
‘s Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. The center is open from October 1 - October 25, 2020 from 9am to 9pm (on Saturdays and Sundays till 5pm).
You are all welcome and enjoy all the beautiful “MOVING” art!!!
Works from Julias van Dam and Els Janssens
Works from Loes Koth Penders and Orly Shemesh
1st Price: Wilma Hornsveld with 'teapot wink'; 2nd price: Hilde Butterman with 'Dordrecht'; 3rd price: Jeanne in Dorsthorst with 'Outdoor'.
Tomorrow, the exposition will finally open after the postponement of several months due to the Corona virus. The Dutch Ceramics Group NVK and the National Tree Museum Gimborn organize together for the 4th time a ceramic exposition in this beautiful tree garden of the museum from September 5 to October 25, 2020.
47 NVK-members show 70 pieces of work with the theme “Ode to Nature”.
It is a beautiful park and rich vegetation and especially now a good chance to be outdoors, enjoy nature and beautiful art!!!
There will be no opening reception.
I show my Horsehair Raku “Spread Your Wings” installation; The tallest/smallest wing is about 2 meters/ 6”8’ tall; the lowest/biggest wing is about 80 cm/2 feet tall.
https://www.swanceramics.com/#/installations/
Horsehair Raku “Spread your Wings”.
https://www.historischamstelland.nl/ontdekken/museum-ouder-amstel
Today, my exposition “Repair your soul” opened in the Amstelland Museum in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel in the Netherlands. It is a historical museum about the history of this village Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, which started in the year 1000, because of the important river the Amstel and river crossings. Those rivers were water ways carrying and moving people and freight in barges. The museum consist of 6 small Diaconie charity houses for elderly women and build by the Protestant Amstelkerk in 1733.
Jos Out https://www.outart.eu/en/ , a sculptor, is my partner in the exposition.
More information is on the exhibition page: https://www.swanceramics.com/exhibitions
The historical Amstelland Museum.
Entrance of the museum.
“Kintsugi” work: Repair your Soul.
“Caldera” Kintsugi Horsehair Plate: Repair your Soul.
“Spread your Wings”
“Spread your Wings”
“Spread your Wings”
“Mishima” and “In-Motion” Horsehair Work
“In-Motion” Horsehair Raku Vases
Winning ICAN NCECA Mishima Horsehair Raku Teapot
“In-Motion” Horsehair Raku Work.
Some beautiful sculptures from Jos Out.
Woman sculpture from Jos Out.
“Kintsugi” is a Japanese method of repairing broken ceramics. During my many movings from Japan back to the USA, within the USA and the return to the Netherlands, some of my work broke. Some of them beyond repair but some I was able to mend.
With this Kintsugi method the damage of the broken objects will be aggrandized by filling the cracks with GOLD. It is believed that when something suffered damage and has a history, it becomes more beautiful. “All of us developed scars throughout our lives. These scars should not be hidden. Our imperfections can be the birth of something new”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9LMKGte0UU
Some of my restored work:
“Caldera” 2 times Horsehair Raku fired; fumed with Ferric Chloride and Kintsugi repair.
Cut+paste Horsehair Raku Kintsugi Cup
“In-Motion” cut+paste Horsehair Kintsugi Vase
“Mishima” cut+paste Horsehair Raku Kintsugi Cup
“Golden Sun” Glazed Horsehair Raku Kintsugi Plate
“Swanflower” Horsehair Raku Kinstugi Vase
White Horsehair Raku Kintsugi Bowl
“Volcano” 2 times Horsehair Raku fired Kintsugi Bowl
White Horsehair Raku Kintsugi Bowl
My teapot “Horsehair Raku Mishima” teapot is included in an article in the Pottery Making Illustrated magazine of the May/June 2020 issue. Due to the cancellation of the NCECA conference end of March 2020, where the teapots would have be shown, they have chosen to showcase the 20 amazing teapots, chosen by editor and ceramic artist Katie Sleyman, in the magazine Pottery Making Illustrated. They have paired the teapots with Ivor Lewis’ article that elaborates on the important considerations of making each part of the teapot.
Please, enjoy the article and beautiful teapots.
https://ceramicartsnetwork.org/pottery-making-illustrated/ceramic-art-and-artists/ceramic-artists/short-stout-an-ican-exhibition/
"Originally published in Pottery Making Illustrated, May/June 2020. http://potterymaking.org. Copyright, The American Ceramic Society. Reprinted with permission."
May 2020; My “Horsehair Raku Mishima” teapot (NUMBER 6) is featured in an article in Pottery Making Illustrated in the May/June 2020 issue: Short and Stout; an ICAN Exhibition.
May 2020; My “Horsehair Raku Mishima” teapot (NUMBER 6) is featured in an article in Pottery Making Illustrated in the May/June 2020 issue: Short and Stout; an ICAN Exhibition.
Yesterday, the blacksmith Jan Cuiper finished the supports for my horsehair raku wings for the exhibition at the National Tree Museum the Arboretum in Doorn , Netherlands organized by the NVK Nationale Vakgroep Keramisten, the Dutch Ceramics Organization.
Unfortunately, the exhibition got postponed to September 2020 due to the Corona virus and pandemie.
I put the wings in my backyard. The title “SPREAD YOUR WINGS” which I came up with was months ago and so depressing now that every one has to stay inside. But at the other hand it is a very uplifting metaphor for the future to take off again after such a difficult time in which many people lost their precious lives due to the virus. My sincere condolences.
The tallest with smallest wings in the back are 2.15 meter or 7 feet high. The smallest with biggest wings in the front are 1.45 meter or 4.75 feet high. It is like they are flying up and get smaller when higher up with the movement of the wings. Then the steel pole moves in the wind like the wing is flying.
Horsehair Raku “Spread your Wings” installation in my backyard. The tallest wing in the back is 2.15 meter or 7’; the smallest front wing is 1.45 meter or 4,5’.
The 2nd tallest wing.
I put the installation in my frontyard so the people passing my house can enjoy it.