Antoinette interviews artists and craftsmen

Rhythm of Tides

​ANJA SLAPNIČAR VISITS WITH ANTOINETTE BADENHORST

​Anja Slapničar, a ceramic artist and highly renown herself 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. 

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. 

​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. He keeps experimenting with the layering of ceramic pigment and resist techniques.
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. Other highlights in his career was when he was accepted as a member of the International Academy of Ceramics and was honored as a Fellow of Ceramics Southern Africa. John taught a class at La Meridiana in 2018. 

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

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 I interviewed her, I learned some interesting facts about her career. 

Marie EVB GIbbons tells her story. 

Instead of using ceramic glazes, Marie used acrylic paints to decorate her sculptures. She took a decorating medium which is fairly cheap to buy to create extraordinary articles from otherwise fairly ordinary objects. Although Marie worked with clay, her decorating techniques are suitable for any surface. 

Sculpted Art by late Marie EvB Gibbons.

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, and hunting and fishing guide, telling stories. Paul Lewing have a few passion and all are intertwined with each other. He loves clay, especially if he can enhance the surface, he loves hiking and being out in nature and he loves documenting his love on canvas. His canvas is often the permanent surface of a wall of tiles or the floor of a swimming pool. His stories are fascinating when his work becomes part of architectural elements his it becomes evident that Paul is an authentic artist.  

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. 

Some shino glazing effects obtained by Connie Christensen.

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 successful 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.

​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.

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

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.

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). 

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