There’s more to artistic pottery than making pots!
There’s more to artistic pottery than making pots! What distinguishes me from the rest here is that I don’t hanker after the wheel. To me, the wheel is just another tool which I use when I need to make miniature pots and the like. Or I use it to blend with my art work to get a better output with intricate hand building to go with it. I advocate artistic pottery as that brings out the ‘real’ you in yourself. The potters’ wheel can only make the clay go round and round with your correct finger movements to assist the molding of the pot, and simply put, if you know to cope with clay in the first place with speed and dexterity by hand building exercises, then mastering the wheel is just a cake walk. At the most, you can create different shapes of pots using the potters’ wheel, but there’s more to pottery than just making pots! It is an understatement that clay means pot making, which actually is what in the public’s mind. They hardly know that there are...