Get your mojo workin’ y’all
Sat-Sun January 18 & 19, 2025: Two Day Throwing & Extreme Handle Demonstrations.
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.
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 almost exclusively glazing and firing a carbon trap shino glaze over multiple slips in a gas fired kiln.
Shino Glazes, Cone 10 Gas Kiln Firing, Hands-on Wheel
Mon-Sat January 20-25, 2025: 6 Day Hands-On Workshop
For those 15 lucky enough to stay on till Saturday Jan 24 the following will unfold. You will be able to make what I have demonstrated with personal individual guidance from Tony and assistants.
Sat-Sunday: Throwing and extreme handle demonstrations.
Monday: Glaze tutorial, glazing and load cone 10 gas kiln of shino glazes. Participants will bring Cone 10 porcelain and stoneware bisque fired pots to be glazed in shino. (Bring two pieces no larger than 9″ tall x 4″ wide, 2 pieces no larger than 5″x5″, 3 small-narrow pieces for kiln filler. NO Plates or Platters)
Tony has focused on shino glazes over the past 2 decades and can promise you every colour of the rainbow using three different shino recipes. Handouts on recipes and applications will be provided.
Tuesday: Firing begins.
Tuesday: Friday making work in the studio. This work may be bisque fired or taken home green.
Saturday: Unload the gas kiln and a group critique of not only the green pots you made during the week but the pots being unloaded from the gas kiln. Be prepared for some major eye candy.
Tony Clennell, MFA, RCA
Tony Clennell is a second generation potter that has taught workshops in Canada, USA, Japan, China, Korea, Wales, Portugal and Italy. 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.
Refunds less credit card fee are available up to 3 weeks before the class begins. After that period the fee is non refundable. However, you may transfer your ticket to a friend.
