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“This beautifully illustrated guide is the ideal starting point for those wanting to forge a closer bond between their art and their natural surroundings.” ―Ceramics Now
“Finding your own clay-especially for use as a glaze material or to augment a commercial clay body-is increasingly popular and this book is a guide to finding, testing, and using wild clay.” ―The Studio Manager
"A fascinating guide to finding your own clay and creating your own glazes. Billed as ideal starting point for novices, experts, and everyone in between, this is an excellent addition to the experienced ceramicist’s library, but also to those new to the art." - Book Riot
About the Author
Matt Levy was raised in Flagstaff, Arizona, and educated in Wisconsin and Montana. He has a strong connection to the geology around him and the materials found within are a constant driving force in his practice. A Materialist at heart, Matt is motivated by what can be found in the soil beneath his feet and the rocks he finds in the landscape. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, with his wife and child, sourcing local clay from Lake Superior and Mississippi River Basin.
Takuro Shibata is a Japanese native ceramic artist based in Seagrove, North Carolina, USA, and has studied Engineering in Applied Chemistry at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. Later, his interest in ceramics led him to become an apprentice at a local pottery studio in Shigaraki, Japan. After visiting the USA with his wife in 2001, many opportunities came up to join ceramic art programs and in 2005, they both moved to the Seagrove area after he had accepted the position of director at STARworks Ceramics.
Takuro has developed a national reputation as a ceramic artist and wild clay specialist. His own ceramic work, knowledge of ceramic materials and background story have all been prominently featured in the media and shared in many exhibitions, workshops, publications and ceramic conferences both nationally and internationally. He is a member of the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC).
Hitomi Shibata is a Japanese native ceramic artist based in Seagrove, North Carolina, USA and has studied Fine Art & Craft at Okayama University in Japan. She lived and worked as a potter in Shigaraki, an old pottery village in Japan, until a Rotary International scholarship brought her to the USA to study ceramics at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. With her husband, she later moved to North Carolina to set up a permanent pottery studio and now build wood kilns together.
Hitomi has been artist-in-residence at Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Cub Creek Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, and North Carolina Pottery Center; organised workshops and lectured at Peters Valley School of Craft, Penland School of Crafts, and NCECA; won international ceramics competitions at Yingge Museum of Ceramics, Taiwan, and Yixing Teapot Competition, China; and is a member of the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC).
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80.00% of customers are satisfied
5.0 out of 5 stars Raw Clay, and how to find it.
This book is amazing. It has all the knowledge of clay foraging, plus how to make your own clay from foraged ingredients. Not only that, but there are photos of how each formula of clay, and each kind of clay fires and that knowledge is instrumental in choosing a particular clay for a project. This book is a repository of knowledge that we human are going to need if one day civilization is destroyed and we have to rebuild. This is the kind of thing that keeps humanity alive and this should never be lost to the ages.
5.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous book with good technical detail!
Beautiful photos, just gorgeous! This is worthy as a coffee table book, but it is not short on details. It's totally engrossing, including fine examples of the work of skilled artisans from various locales who use found clay as well as advanced details about locating and preparing the natural material. The book made me want to collect some wild clay and create artful pieces that suit its inherent characteristics. I loved giving this as a heartfelt special gift -- and now I want a copy for my house.
5.0 out of 5 stars Great resource!
I’m just diving into this book, but it looks very thorough with great information. I can’t wait to put it to practical use and try working with wild clay. From the slightly curious to the person needing practical & technical information, this book is great!
5.0 out of 5 stars Was the perfect choice…made a big hit..was a gift.
Great book for a potter!
5.0 out of 5 stars Technical clay book
Served the purpose in providing good information.
2.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful book with great pictures, but little actual information
Most of the actual information in the book is easily found on-line. This is not a how-to book on using wild clay. They don't even bother to show how to process a batch of wild clay to make it useable. It is still a beautiful book with really pretty pictures but over half is just bios of potters who use wild clay. It's a nice coffee table book but not one I'd recommend for the knowledge seeker.
Maravilhoso
Realmente é um livro muito útil para quem busca saber mais sobre cerâmica.
Danke!
Sehr informativ
Buon libro per arredare il salotto
Belle foto, bravi ceramisti, ma non è una guida che approfondisce sul tema come aspettavo, visto il prezzo.
all images in low resolution
The book is nice, although all images are printed in very low quality, so the whole book is pixelated.
Mostly padding and artist profiles
Only a few chapters totalling 50 pages in this entire book are about wild clay and how to process it and work with it. The 125 odd other pages are just about the writers and showcases of other potters. Not really that interesting to be honest.
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Wild Clay: Creating ceramics and glazes from natural and found resources
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