First, I would like to say how devastating the earthquake and tsunami is for Japan. I was at that moment home in California and am now in Chicago with my youngest son, Arjan. This was all already planned of course. But Adriaan was in our house in Kamakura and felt the biggest sho ... Continue Reading
I made some Kamakura Red big vases for an order. It was a challenge, because to throw the vase in one time with the clay I use is very difficult. So, it threw it in two and three parts and then when the clay was firmed up, you put the parts together. After that, I conti ... Continue Reading
On April 14 I went to Kusakabe-san’s place to fire a wood kiln together and at the end at high temperature we threw salt into the kiln and got some beautiful results. Quite a small effective kiln and hardly any smoke. The fire box. View of the glow of the fi ... Continue Reading
Before I left for the USA on March the 2nd, I just had finished my new Kamakura-Red Ware inspired by Kamakura Bori (woodcarving). I took pictures and was able to finish my second booklet of Ceramics Adventures in Japan II “Kamakura-Red” and got it all printed. But onl ... Continue Reading
I’m very busy for my Kamakura exhibition for next week. I’m going to squeeze in some time to show you a couple of pieces, my first “Kamakura Red” work out of my electric kiln here in Japan. I shipped one of my Skutt kilns from California, USA to Yokohama, ... Continue Reading
I went to a workshop of Jeff Oestreich on Saturday, February 28 at the Trax Gallery in Berkeley, CA: http://www.traxgallery.com/. He is born in 1947, and is a ceramic artist who lives in Taylors Falls, Minnesota. He studied at the Bemidji State University, and the University of M ... Continue Reading
Masakazu Kusakabe-san and Marc Lancet gave a workshop together on Spetember 13 in Santa Clara at ClayPlanet. They wrote a book together about Japanese Wood-Fired Ceramics and built the Dancing Wood Fire Kiln at Solano College in California. Marc Lancet is the Director of the Dep ... Continue Reading
I made this “Oribe”plate at the Nippon Tougei Club. In the mid-sixteenth century, the taste of ceramics changed from Chinese ceramics to domestically manufactured wares, or “wamono”. Sen no Rikyuo refined this change: the aesthetic of “wabi-cha̶ ... Continue Reading
Some new results from my work in America. Glazed horsehair, fumed,crazed Raku bowl. The other side, front or back of the glazed horsehair Raku bowl. The foot of the glazed horsehair Raku bowl. Glazed, fumed decorated horsehair bowl. The foot of the bowl. Continue Reading
