Charadehoney

charade and duncan have a sale day!

2011-11-22T11:12:00.001-08:00

Woodfiring in Lubradow Poland 2007

2011-11-15T11:59:00.001-08:00

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Brakfast feast every day!

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Mistletoe

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Nic Collins,Duncan Shearer and Robert Sanderson listening to the rugby online.Maybe England losing???

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Tools in a bucket of ice

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Food arriving.After the art school had got the grant to do the woodfiring workshop,they asked the farmers across the road if they were interesed in doing the catering.Thet slaughtered a couple of pigs and made bacon,sasauges,ham,roasts,you name it!And three times a day for a week this lovely couple(who spoke no english)would cross the road to where we were all staying with all this amazing home made food!There was one woman who was a vegetarian.........

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Firing anagama

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Polish papparazi

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Absinthe for breakfast

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No green fairys alas!

It started snowing!!

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I had never seen it snow!

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Silent,peaceful and just beautiful!

Incredible India!2008

2011-11-15T11:35:00.001-08:00

I woke early in the morning to go for a walk,Around a corner,in the sunshine were a family of potters.Only the men do the potting in the villages.So he starts with a large lump of clay.....

then he beats it into shape with his hands and a smooth piece of wood...

the pot is placed in an old terracotta dish.this forms the round base of the vessel,

he keeps paddling away until he gets the right shape!

I was in awe.What beautiful water pots!Not a wheel in sight.

Duncan teaching in Pune

Fresh chai cups

Used chai cups!

Market,Jaisalmeer Bus station

Terracotta horse,Dehli.

Duncan and Charade have a sale!

2011-11-14T11:58:00.001-08:00

Show at David Lloyd Gallery

2011-11-14T11:53:00.001-08:00

Big Clay Day Out!

2011-11-12T20:06:00.001-08:00

Mateusz Groblny

2011-11-10T22:19:00.001-08:00

Woodstoke!Woodfiring conference,Whangamata,North Island,Newzealand 2012

2011-11-06T11:25:00.000-08:00

2011-10-15T18:07:00.000-07:00

Top award for supreme effort

ANNA PEARSON

Last updated 14:18 14/10/2011

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ANNA PEARSON

AWARD-WINNING: Nelson ceramic artist Bridie Henderson, 25, is the Portage Ceramic Awards supreme winner.

TOP ENTRY: Bridie Henderson's award-winning entry, Feathers, an installation of three illuminated porcelain necklaces, encased in a wooden cabinet.

A 25-year-old ceramic artist from Nelson has won $15,000 in a prestigious national competition which she had to borrow money to enter.

Bridie Henderson, who lives in Richmond, almost missed out on entering the Portage Ceramic Awards, because she could not afford to take her entry to Auckland.

Henderson was announced as the supreme winner at a ceremony in Auckland last night, with Feathers – an installation of three illuminated porcelain necklaces, encased in a wooden cabinet.

Her partner, Campbell Martin, a trained electrician, helped with the lighting, and her friend, Kyle Thomas, a joiner, helped make the cabinet.

It was the first time Henderson had entered a ceramics competition, and she is the youngest recipient of the supreme prize in the history of the prestigious awards.

Henderson, who works part-time as a cleaner, said she was surprised by the win.

"It was a bit of a shock. This is the ultimate prize in the ceramic world. I was just so stoked about getting accepted as a finalist. That was pretty amazing."

She is a regular at Craft Potters in Hope and spends one day a week at mentor Steve Fulmer's workshop in Tasman.

Fulmer said it was "mind-blowing" that Henderson had been accepted for the awards while she was still a student. To go on and win the supreme award was "astonishingly awesome".

The organisers of the Portage Ceramic Awards bought Feathers for $10,000, on top of the $15,000 prize money.

Henderson said the money couldn't have come at a better time, because she was in her final year of a three-year Diploma in Ceramic Art and was working towards her first exhibition.

"I had to borrow money from Mum and Dad to pay for petrol and the ferry ticket so I could get [Feathers] to Auckland. The work is so delicate. I didn't want it sent by courier," she said.

"It had taken so much time and effort. To have it break on the way up would have been tragic."

The work took more than six months to make, as each feather took an hour and there were 24 feathers on each piece.

"I made six sets and chose the best three. There was heaps of trial and error," she said.

The judge, Janet Mansfield, is an internationally renowned Australian ceramicist, who said she rarely saw work of such skill.

The attention to detail in Feathers was exceptional, she said. "Many ceramic artists are inspired by the flora and fauna around them, but [Feathers] takes it one step further. It's a stunning work."

2011-10-11T16:08:00.000-07:00

Art by Tracey Tawhaio.

2011-10-10T17:30:00.001-07:00

water

2011-10-10T17:25:00.001-07:00

into the wild....

2011-10-10T15:28:00.001-07:00

Rosanna Raymond

2011-10-10T13:59:00.000-07:00

Allanah Curries chairs

2011-10-10T13:44:00.000-07:00

taj mahal

2011-10-10T13:00:00.001-07:00

beauty

2011-10-10T12:59:00.000-07:00

new home in the woods

2011-10-10T12:26:00.001-07:00

Hokianga

2011-09-04T14:39:00.000-07:00

September warming

2011-09-04T14:23:00.000-07:00

Knitted toys drying on line,before continuing their journey to my slip bucket!

2011-04-10T14:56:00.000-07:00

The dining room table..........!

2011-04-10T14:51:00.000-07:00

Arkady Ognia.

2011-04-06T13:48:00.000-07:00

This is wonderful!A friend we made in Poland.

Sztuka Ognia 2007/Art of Fire 2007/003

2011-03-27T13:51:00.000-07:00

Sztuka Ognia 2007/Art of Fire 2007/Night Watch/Nocna straż

2011-03-27T13:45:00.000-07:00

Small Anagama

2011-03-27T13:39:00.000-07:00

These luscious wares are by Zeita Scott.They look so liquid,you could drown in them!

2011-03-23T13:18:00.000-07:00

http://www.zeitascott.co.uk/

I love rabbits twitchy little noses..

2011-03-23T12:45:00.000-07:00

Would this hurt your nipples?

2011-03-23T12:28:00.000-07:00

Mike o Donells

2011-03-17T13:39:00.001-07:00

mike o donells

2011-03-17T13:33:00.000-07:00

Loading hybrid wood kiln,Tarariki pottery,Paeroa,Hauraki

2011-03-17T13:23:00.000-07:00