TEABOWL EXHIBITION

Just wanted to call attention to the third Philadelphia International Teabowl Exhibition curated by mark Tyson, this starts on 2/1 and can be seen in person in Wallingford, PA or on the internet at; https://communityartscenter.org/. As mentioned, this is the third such exhibition and includes pieces from around the world, over 400 pieces will be on display. This is absolutely worth checking out!    

I wanted to mention that I was lucky enough to be included in this exhibition, showing three Oribe style teabowls, two thrown and alter with cut feet and the third a more conservative thrown stacked stones style piece. Illustrated is one of the T&A bowls, thrown out of a small batch clay with sand, the form was slightly manipulated and then softly faceted exposing more texture before the base and foot were addressed using a small piece of wood to cut away the unwanted clay. The feet are on the smaller side as I really enjoy this look and precarious feeling, where the pieces were fired on pins, the marks were then covered over in small dots of gold lacquer epoxy.     

This is a new style of bowl for me, well new for 2024 and has sprung out of more conservative attempts at making such pieces and hopefully have a slightly more casual and free spirit. The Oribe glazed used, which I refer to as Kuro-Oribe has quite a few tones of Oribe green through-out the form and also shows off a degree of blue-grey drooze as gravity certainly played its part in the making. In point of fact, it is gravity that has driven me to firing these on pins as a teabowl lugging around a heavy shelf is surely less functional than I intended. If you go to the exhibition, please be sure to give these bowls a once over.