2-days: Saturday, November 7 & Sunday, November 8

Time: 10am-4pm (both days)

Cost: $525+ tax

Includes: All materials and tools. Firings are extra, if needed.

Prerequisites: This workshop is not suitable for beginners. A competence with centreing and throwing is required.

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Workshop Description: 

This 2-day workshop will focus on larger than life, utilitarian pottery for occasional use. We will pay attention to the details on large casseroles, pitchers, bowls, baskets and plates so they may be used for celebration and presentation.

Tony Clennell,MFA, RCA:

Tony is a second generation potter who has taught workshops in Canada, USA, Japan, China, Korea, Wales, Portugal, Italy and Mexico. He has a Master of Fine Arts from Utah State University and is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. He has written extensively for ceramic journals and is exhibited in museums and collections in North America, Europe and Asia. He is the author of “Stuck in the Mud”. He has also maintained a blog: smokieclennell.blogspot.com since 2007.

The workshop will focus on larger than life, utilitarian pottery for occasional use. We will pay attention to the details on large casseroles, pitchers, bowls, baskets and plates so they may be used for celebration and presentation.

Statement from the Artist:

My specialty over the years has been sectional or composite throwing where I add many pieces together to make one vessel. I have also developed a signature with the use of thrown, pulled and hand built handles. Extreme handles are my specialty.

Recent work has included gestural marks and brushwork for a tactile geological surface to the work. The maker’s marks and details of process are what I am interested in leaving in the finished work. Although I wood fire, I have made my living for the past 2 decades with high temperature stoneware fired in a gas kiln. This is a participatory throwing workshop so potters should be working at the intermediate to advanced level. You can expect to be making pieces 2-3 times larger than your current work. Mark making and gesture are a big part of what I do, so loosen up and enjoy the ride.

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