Surfing Clay 2

In this segment, I provide you with a few of the interesting sites that I have recently visited on the web.

Eva Funderburgh is a ceramic artist located in Seattle, Washington. Coming from an education in chemistry and sculpture, she has focused herself on making strange whimiscal clay creatures.
http://evafunderburgh.com/

Hank Goodman Stoneware : Hank writes: "Wood warms twice" is a popular expression in the densely forested western North Carolina Mountains, referring to the warmth generated in the chopping and burning of wood. But though Hank Goodman’s distinctive wood ash glazes, wood warms a third time in their lasting beauty. Hank recycles large amounts of wood ash collected from families who heat with wood, which in turn gives his stoneware the subdued and sensuous glazes that are its trademark.”
I love the feel and presence of Hanks work. Find it at http://HankGoodman.com

Another not to miss potter is Dick Lehman who also fires with wood. Dick writes: “I experience a kind of reverence in wood-firing that I find in no other ceramic pursuit: I stoke the kiln with wood which has grown (often times on my own property) over the last thirty or fifty, or perhaps seventy years. During those years the tree, being true to its own biological requirements (and subject to the particularities of the roughly two hundred cubic yards of soil atop of which it sits, and through which its roots traverse), has quietly but steadily stored away in its bark and cambium layer, a peculiar set of soluble minerals and salts.”
Find Dick’s site at http://www.dicklehman.com/

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