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  • Ceramics: Art and Perception

    Inspirations and reflections on life and learning

    Nov 01, 2017 3 minutes
    Written by Malcolm Greenwood

    The first was a five-day workshop I led at Marian Williams’ studio in Murwillumbah on the far north coast of NSW. The second was firing the ‘Racer’, the anagama kiln at the Mansfield property Morning View at Gulgong.

    Preparing for the workshop led me to contemplate the major influence and continuing inspiration of three potters in my life: Makoto Yabe, Toshiko Takaezu, and Peter Rushforth.

    Makoto re-taught me how to work

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