The Tin Shed Pottery, Launceston

The months of April and May have flown by.

It was WOODFIRETAS 2011, 28th April- 1st of May at Deloraine, Tasmania!!

Before the conference -

Prepared work at The Tin Shed in Launceston for pre-conference workshop at Neil Hoffmann's studio Reedy Marsh from 24th-28th April.

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Launceston is beautiful. We have a nice walk down hill to The Tin Shed, for some clay work.
Doing a bisque firing and then joining the workshop at Neil Hoffmann's workshop, Reedy Marsh Workshop.
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An Exhibition of Anagama-fired Ceramics

opening 17th Feb 2011

at 6:30pm

works of Adil Writer, Antra Sinha, Ashwini Bhat and Rakhee Kane

on view 18th - 20th Feb 2011

10am - 8pm

1 Shanthi Road Gallery

Palani Swamy's village in Pudukottai district

A Village Potter

Palani Swamy.

Pudukottai district, Tamil Nadu.

His work at his home.

He would throw off the hump, several pots on the traditional wheel.

After half a day of drying his wife would paddle them one by one. A pot is paddled, left to stiffen a little more and then paddled again to get the shape.

The stacked up cooking stove, devil head and horse and cow forms are coil-build.

Visit with my Japanese friends.

December 2010.

Urpetti

Iyyannar temple.

Terracotta horses.

Urpetti, small village on way from Thiruchirapalli to Pudukottai.

With Tomoko San and Obana San.

December13, 2010