Vasefinder International 2011
The Vasefinder International is an international competition organised by Charles Blim in Nevada USA. Charles owns a website called, funnily enough, VASEFINDER.COM and takes it upon himself to organise and fund (with the help of sponsors) a competition to find the ‘best’ vase from an open submission. A judge is appointed…this year it was Robin Hopper from Canada, and his job is to choose the winner. This year I was lucky enough to win!!!
I would like to thank Charles for his continuing support of potters. He really does admire potters and artists and takes a genuinely and, I have to say quite rare ,benevolent and nurturing role.
The Winning Pot. Salt glazed and side fired on Scallop shells from Cape Cod. 11 inches tall.
New Show at Goldmark.
A short slide show of scenes during the opening day of my show at
the Goldmark Gallery in Uppingham on the 8th of November 2008. Mike
Goldmark and the Gallery staff really know how to put on an exhibition.
The exhibition looked amazing and was complimented by the new DVD which,
together with a full colour catalogue is available from the Gallery. The
catalogue contains an essay by Sebastian Blackie. Both the DVD and the
catalogue are still available from the Gallery. Please email Vicki at
the Goldmark Gallery and she will be happy to make sure you receive
either or both.
HAMADA SHOJI.
I have a number of works by Hamada, Shimaoka and Hamada Shinsaku
that were not shown during the last exhibition together with a few that
were unsold. If you go to the page ‘Hamada Exhibition’ you will
find a selection of pieces that are available for purchase. I will add
new ones as pieces are sold so please check back from time to time. I am
also very willing to email further images to anyone interested in
purchasing a piece. Please email
me details of your interest and I’ll do my best to provide images to
suit.
New DVD.
I am pleased to say the double box set DVD produced by The
Goldmark Gallery has sold very well. Copies have gone to New Zealand,
Australia, The United States, Holland, Germany, South Africa and others.
In a film by Charles Mapleston that lasts 70 minutes viewers can see me
helping to fire Ken Matsuzaki’s anagama kiln in Mashiko. The camera also
follows me around galleries in Mashiko where we find pots by Hamada and
Shimaoka, a look at my exhibition of jugs at the Pucker Gallery in
Boston and making pots in Wales including firing my own two chamber wood
kiln. There are also in excess of two hours of extras that include more
making sequences, a look at the Hamada Museum in Mashiko and discussion
and explanation of my work.
The DVD is available from the Goldmark Gallery for £15.00 + £2.50
postage and package in the UK. Overseas buyers would need to email the gallery for the
postage cost. email
me details of your interest and I’ll forward your enquiry to the
Gallery.
Alternatively you can go directly to
http://www.modernpots.com/view_article.php?article_id=194&sort_by=
Phil Rogers-Potter
PHIL ROGERS – potter is a book published in the United
States by The Pucker Gallery of Boston.
Contained in this book of almost 100 pages there is an
appreciation of my work by Andrew Maske previously keeper of ceramics at
the Peabody Essex Museum in New Hampshire USA. There is also a question
and answer interview with myself within which I talk about starting out
as a potter, my life as a working potter, my influences and future
projects.
80 full colour plates of my work are represented and the book the
size of which is 8 x 11 inches with a hard cover and dust jacket. There
are still copies available.
The publication price is £25.00 pounds.
To order a signed and stamped copy please send a cheque for 31.00
pounds (UK), 35.00 pounds (USA), 31.00 pounds (EU) to:
Phil Rogers, Lower Cefnfaes, RHAYADER, Powys. LD6 5LT. UK.
All prices include packing and postage.
For those of you in the USA the book will also be available from
The Pucker Gallery, 171 Newbury Street, Boston. MA
Pucker Gallery – Tel 617 267 9473 or http://www.puckergallery.com
To have a book written about me rather than by me is a very
special moment. I hope this book will compliment the pots that are owned
by collectors everywhere and provide some of the background to the work
I make and my reasons for exploring the avenues that I do. I would like
to thank Bernie Pucker and his staff at the gallery, in particular
Destiny Barletta and Emily Tevald for their hard work in making this
project happen.
The Pucker Gallery really is an amazing place and if you
are in Boston please be sure to call in. You will be received warmly and
shown all four floors that comprise the gallery and which house an
enormous collection of paintings, pots, sculpture and artifacts.
If you are a retailer of ceramic interest books please contact me
regarding supplies for your outlet.
Goldmark Gallery.
The Goldmark Gallery in Uppingham has quickly become
the leading gallery in the UK dealing with Contemporary Studio Pottery.
Situated in Uppingham, a charming English market town famous for it’s
public schools, the Goldmark Gallery, if you haven’t already visitied,
is a large gallery on two floors crammed full of paintings, prints and
pots. Many of the paintings and prints are by the 20th centuries most
well known artists including Hockney, Piper, Matisse, Chagall, Ceri
Richards, David Jones, Robert Dawson and many others. Mike Goldmark and
his staff are the friendliest bunch and make everyone welcome with
coffee and sometimes even lunch! Please contact the gallery for an
invite to their openings or to view the pots they hold in stock on
01572 821424 or at http://www.modernpots.com
Books.
A&C Black have published all three of the books I have written.
Throwing Pots, currently in its third edition, has sold in excess of
15,000 copies worldwide and continues to sell well particularly in the
USA where it is compulsory reading for a number of college courses.
Signed copies of all three of my books, ‘ASH GLAZES’, ‘SALT GLAZING’
and ‘THROWING POTS’ can be obtained from me at the cover cost +
postage. Please email or telephone.
Goldmark Catalogues.
The catalogues from my shows with the Goldmark Gallery are
available from the gallery. Although a catalogue they are really finely
produced books with essays by critic David Whiting and artist Sebastian
Blackie. There are around 70 colour plates of pots and my workshop. I
am very proud of these books because they provide a significant
document of my career over a period of time. Mike and his son Jay did a
great job of production and these books will form part of a series of
monographs on contemporary potters that will have exhibited at the
Goldmark Gallery including Matsuzaki Ken, Clive Bowen, Jim Malone, Lisa
Hammond and Mike Dodd. Signed copies are available from me or contact
Mike Goldmark at the Goldmark Gallery in Uppingham, Rutland on 01572
821424.
HARRISON GALLERY
I am pleased to say that my work is now also to be seen at the Harrison
Gallery in Williamstown MA. Please contact the owner Jo Ellen Silipo
for opening times. Also, in conjunction with the Pucker gallery there
are pieces available at Earth and Fire Gallery in Leesburg,
Virginia.
September 2002.
‘Salt Glazing’
‘Salt Glazing’ was published in 2002 and continues to sell very
well.
‘Salt Glazing’ is a thorough look at the procedures of
salt glazing together with an in depth study of 25 contemporary potters
using salt in a variety of ways. Anyone wishing to have a signed copy
can email
me and I will send them one from here. The cost is £30.00 plus postage.
The second edition of ‘Ash Glazes’ is also available.
‘Ash Glazes’ has now sold more than 11,000 copies. The new edition is
full colour throughout, includes a number of new practitioners and many
new images of comtemporary work that employs wood ash.