Antoinette interviews artists and craftsmen

Dealing with the inner critique

​Antoinette is interviewed on the Potters Cast. The story begins with the artists heritage, how she came to the United States and why she chose ceramics as an art form.
Antoinette talks about the diva that keeps her humble and she give a glimpse of why one should understand the clay medium.

Glazing with Ron Roy

​Ron Roy is well known as the ceramic Glaze doctor. As the co-author, along with John Hesselberth, the book  "Mastering Cone 6 Glazes" took the pottery community by storm, since, for the first time, there was a condensed, but extensive  document about stability and durability of pottery glazes. Watch the video where Antoinette Interview Ron

Curt is also a fellow member of the International Academy of Ceramic Art.

Curtis Benzle: artist, business man, porcelain instructor. 

Curt was one of the first porcelain artists that I learned about when I was still a young potter. I saw his work for the first time in a porcelain book by Peter Lane. 
At the time my knowledge of porcelain was limited and in my wildest dreams I never would have thought that I would get a chance to meet him, let alone to get to become friends. 
Enjoy this interview; I sure loved hearing his stories. 

During a show at a college in Texas.

Dealing with the Inner Critic | Antoinette Badenhorst | Episode 672

During a Potters Cast interview with Paul Blais, Antoinette talked about her choice to work with porcelain, who she consider to be her audience and what inspires her work. She talk about the ability to self critique and to decide when art is ready to show to the world. Enjoy listening. 

Malcolm White Visits with Antoinette

Antoinette was recently interviewed on the Mississippi Public Broadcasting's FM and digital radio networks by Malcolm White, the former executive director of the Mississippi Arts Commission.
They found the story in Saltillo Mississippi, to Chicago and all the way back to her heritage in South Africa and Namibia.

Rhythm of Tides

​ANJA SLAPNIČAR VISITS WITH ANTOINETTE BADENHORST

​Anja Slapničar, a ceramic artist and highly renown artist from Slovenia interviewed Antoinette and found out where her career started. Antoinette presents hands-on workshops as well as online classes to potters around the world. 

IN CONVERSATION WITH PORCELAIN POTTER DAVID VOORHEES

​David comes from a family of artists and he is married to Molly Sharp, a jewelry artist. Living in Zirconia, NC since 2000, he is working in his timber framed studio, overlooking a beautiful garden, while Molly has her own studio close by. The wood-fired kiln that David designed and built  in 2009 is operating on average 5 times a year. Learn more about David here:

Marcia Selsor low fire saggar fired pots

MARCIA SELSOR TALKS ABOUT ALTERNATIVE FIRING

Marcia celebrated a career of half a century in clay for  in 2016, after she enrolled in a 3-D course at the Philadelphia College of Art in 1966.
Her career path stretch far and deep over different techniques and processes. 
Marcia teaches in many European countries. 
Some of the highlights of her career is architectural exhibitions at the Archie Bray Warehouse and installations at Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana. Learn more about Marcia. 

John Shirley with his slip cast porcelain bowls, decorated with resist and ceramic pigments.

​JOHN SHIRLEY, CERAMIC ARTIST FROM SOUTH AFRICA

The early bone china bowls made by John was pierced and sandblasted, but then he started to experiment with soluble salts several years back. He keeps experimenting with the layering of ceramic pigment and resist techniques and recently started adding gold to his work.
John won a merit at the Corobrik National Ceramics Biennale in 2008 in Johannesburg, South Africa, and had a bone china piece selected for the 5th World Ceramic Biennale, in Korea in 2009. Here is the recorded visit between him and Antoinette. 

Connie is cutting through the thick clay wall to begin with faceting of a cup.

Connie Christensen

 As studio potter and ceramics instructor Connie focuses on wheel thrown and altered functional pottery. She creates   pouring and drinking vessels. During her online workshop with TeachinArt, she created a tea set from clay to finish. When Antoinette interviewed Connie, she revealed some interesting facts about her career. 

Sculpted Art by late Marie EvB Gibbons.

​Marie EVB GIbbons tells her story. 

Instead of using ceramic glazes, the late Marie Gibbons used acrylic paints to decorate her sculptures. She took a decorating medium which is fairly cheap, to create extraordinary articles from otherwise fairly ordinary objects. Although Marie worked with clay, her decorating techniques are suitable for any surface, from wood, plastic, clay or any other material that can be painted. Marie left a beautiful legacy behind. Learn more about it. 

One step in the multiple painting and firing processes involved in China Painting with Paul Lewing.

Paul Lewing; Painting Artist, china painter, ceramic artist and book Author.

Imagine a mule packer, horse wrangler, hunting and fishing guide, telling stories. Paul Lewing have a few passions and all are intertwined with each other. He loves clay, especially if he can enrich the surface with beautiful painting. He love hiking. Being out in nature often, shows when he document it on clay or canvas. Permanent surfaces like wall tiles or the floor of a swimming pool are all places where his love for nature and art collides.
Paul is a fascinating story teller and he weave these stories in during his online workshop with TeachinArt. Antoinette introduces him in this interview.   

Some shino glazing effects obtained by Connie Christensen.

Shino glazing and the artist behind it. 

Connie Christensen is not just a well experienced potter and instructor, but she learned from the best of the best. The late potter and activist Malcolm Davis created shino glazes that lives on in the hands of many potters in the USA today. Connie learned from him and she is taking some of his legacy forth by teaching shino glazing to potters across the world. Here is a little more information.

In front of a Chris Gustin bowl with a variety of mugs, cups and wall plates on the far wall behind Antoinette and Susie.

 Antoinette interviews Susie Bowman

Susie Bowman is the owner of The Kiln Studio and Gallery in Fairhope, a beautiful coastal town in Alabama. Antoinette presented a hands-on workshop in the well equipped studio. 
Susie has successfully hosted workshops and shows of well known ceramic artists and potters like Curtis Benzle, Mary Louis Carter, Ron Meyers, Ken Baskin, Chris Gryder, Bertice McPherson, Sebastian Moh, Fong Choo.
Learn more about ceramic art. 

Coming from a trades family, Michael taps inspiration from everyday handy man objects.

​Antoinette interviews  porcelain ceramic artist Michael Schwegmann

​Michael is an award winning porcelain artist who came from a heritage of tradesman. 
Through his porcelain clay processes he tells stories about tradesman, their tools and machinery. Empty paint cans become canvasses through which he stages the finished job and the worker. He opens up conversations with his patriotic objects about the US flag and military equipment.

Wildlife painter Bradley Gordon bring some world elements into his Mississippi inspired artwork.

​​Antoinette interviews Mississippi Painter Bradley Gordon

Bradley, is a wildlife painter from Oxford Mississippi. He exhibited his colorful paintings in the Gumtree Museum of Art in Tupelo, Mississippi - the birthplace of Elvis Presley. His art is inspired by the Japanese Pop Art and is enriched by his upbringing in the Mississippi Delta. Gordon studied at the University of Mississippi in Oxford and taught English in Taiwan and Japan.

Jack Sures use the cream-like qualities of porcelain slip to decorate his strong ceramic forms with.

Antoinette interviews  Canadian porcelain artist Jack Sures

​Jack is one of Canada's premier ceramicists and art educators. 
He worked and exhibited in Japan, Paris, London, USA and was appointed by the United Nations Handcraft Development Program to set up a ceramics program in Grenada. 
Jack was instrumental in establishing the ceramics department at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus (now the University of Regina). Here is a brief look into the artist