Junction City, OR
Tea came from Vietnam as a child and has worked as a potter in Europe, as well as in Australia and New Zealand. He uses a porcelain clay body and fires his pieces in a high fire gas kiln or in a woodfire kiln. Tea mixes his own glazes and loves to discover new forms, techniques and to push the clay as far as it will take him.
Phone: 541-510-2334
Raku Fish
Nina came to Oregon from Sweden and she loves to create funny personalities and characters in the pottery fish. They are hand thrown on a pottery wheel and Raku fired. Because of the opportunity for variation in Raku pottery, each personally signed ceramic fish ornament is unique.
You can find Nina’s fish in select galleries across the US.
Ted Ernst Pottery
My functional and decorative stoneware and porcelain forms are influenced by southwestern Native American and Japanese folk pottery traditions. I am captivated by the unique surfaces and earthy colors arising from the wood-fire and salt-glaze processes. To produce the wood-fire pieces I combine strong forms and quiet surfaces enriched by the atmosphere in the anagama kiln. I strive to create pieces with a subtle serene beauty. My salt glazed pottery use the salt added during the firing to melt, mix and blend the layers of slip, oxides and wood ash to create bold, flowing surfaces.
My infatuation with art began in high school. After completing my college degree, I became a high school pottery instructor in 1977. Much of what I taught was learned on the fly as I expanded my curriculum. Along the way I participated in many seminars, graduate classes and even spent a year in England studying with ceramicists there. To this day, I’m still learning about the myriad possibilities of the ceramic process. My work has been designed for practical use. All pieces are high fired to a hard cone 10. The shapes I employ are simple and decorated with a range of graphic designs. My unwavering goal is to produce a durable piece of functional art with a flair. Now retired, I create new work in my Jacksonville studio.
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Firesong Ceramics
I was born in Southern Oregon when trees covered most of the land. Trees have provided the inspiration for most of my artwork whether it was oil paints, watercolors, or pen and ink drawings. Now they inform my pottery. Now and then, one can see a touch of geometric precision in a series of pieces. influenced by my study of physics and mathematics. The math and science in my background has helped in glaze formulation.
My future husband introduced me to pottery in 1990. Soon I was developing glazes to set off his pottery and dabbling in creating my own artistic pieces. Starting in 2006, I began showing and selling my own creations. I introduce a new collection every several years. My first successful line was the Spring Reeds which feature sprigged grasses. This morphed into a line of modern geometric shapes that stood cubes on a vertex to make a vase. A workshop last fall turned the cubes back on a side and into lidded boxes with inlaid patterns. My latest series is the Madrone grove collection featuring the negative space between Madrone tree trunks.
My shop on Etsy is called Firesong Pottery.
My website and online store: firesongpottery.com
My email: moc.yrettopgnoserif@elorac
I am also part of the OPA’s Showcase Show and Sale in Portland the last week in April.
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I love “throwing” on the wheel. It is meditative for me….All my pieces start out on the wheel. When they have dried some, I trim them and set them aside for the next step.
I hand carve each piece using a single edged razor blade and dental tools. The razor blades give me a much more sweeping carve then a regular clay carving tool. I start carving when the piece is leather hard. I have to carve or perforate the piece at this stage so as not to have create cracks. I continue to shape as the piece dries. In the end, I use a green scrubby to smooth off the sharp edges. For me, each piece seems like a miniature sculpture. I like how the light plays off the surface whether it is glazed or not.
The pieces are then placed in the bisque kiln and fired until they are the hardness of a red clay pot used for flowers. In this stage, the piece is porous enough to absorb the liquid glaze and solid enough to not melt when dipped into the liquid glaze.
The piece is then put into a gas reduction kiln along with about 80 other pieces, some big some small. The kiln is fired to 2300 degrees over a fourteen hour period. It is then allowed to cool for another fourteen hours. The pieces which emerge from the kiln have gone through a lot of structural and chemical changes. They are a joy to make, hold and use.
Email | Phone: 541-419-1500
Clay Mason Studio creates functional pottery that holds a mountain-inspired, Bohemian flair rooted in the clay history and glazes of her childhood home in Shenandoah Virginia. Amy specializes in custom logo wholesale mugs and local sales.Clay Mason StudioAmy Renee Hess
Facebook | Phone: 540-333-4289
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Jennifer Hill is a studio artist and freelance instructor in Klamath Falls, Oregon. Earning
a BFA and MFA in ceramics lead to teaching in colleges and art centers across the
country for over 20 years and exhibiting nationwide. Her work is greatly influenced
from living on Kauai for several years. Jennifer has since attended art residencies in
places as diverse as Rome, Italy and Missoula, Montana. This summer in Oregon she is
teaching workshops on building ceramic vessels informed by textures in nature.
Website | Email | Instagram | Phone: 214-399-6684
