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Function Ware - Barbara Tipton

Porcelain Place Settings

Chives Porcelain Plate, 2007
wheel-thrown porcelain, reduction fired to cone 10; refired with electronically produced decals to cone 012
9" dia.
$90.00 CDN

 

Plantain Porcelain Plate, 2007
wheel-thrown porcelain, reduction fired to cone 10; refired with electronically produced decals to cone 012
9" dia.
$90.00 CDN

 

About the decals: chives and plantain (and other plants) are images taken from 16th C. herbals, redrawn and handcolored electronically (i.e. in Photoshop).  The watering woman was electronically produced from copyright-free material and handcolored then produced as a decal.

 

Porcelain Tumbler, 2007
wheel-thrown porcelain, reduction fired to cone 10; handpainted
6" high, 3" at widest part
$35.00 CDN each

 

Porcelain Cups, 2007
wheel-thrown porcelain, reduction fired to cone 10; handpainted
c.3x3"
$40.00 CDN each

 

Salt Glazed, Woodfired and/or Hand-painted Functionware

Pitcher, 2007
woodfired, temoku
6x4.5"
$48.00 CDN

 

     
#04.40, 42
Floral Plates
native saskatchewan clay, handpainted, multiple slips and glazes
1 x 10 1/2" to 1 x 11"
$45.00 CDN each

 

Barbara Tipton - Bowls 

Statement

For some years now I have made wall pieces centered around the idea of the cup and saucer. The first of these works originated as wheel-thrown forms, altered and assembled, but this evolved into drawing on paper clay slabs and forming them intuitively. Many of the works retain their visual identity as cup and saucer; yet I’m pleased when a certain amount of ambiguity creeps in.

This year, however, as an aside from handbuilding wall pieces, I began the year throwing all sizes and shapes of bowls—bowls for eating, for serving. Bowls are the original extension of cupped hands, the eternal container. In these utilitarian forms I’ve been looking for more correlation between inside and outside, more continuity between rim and foot. In the studio one is never sure where directions will lead, and some of these works have strayed across the borders of utility. There's every likelihood this exploration will affect my handbuilding as well.

 

 

"Nearly every afternoon she went to the chambers which contained the most interesting fragments of pottery, sat and looked at them for a while.  Some of them were beautifully decorated. This care, expended upon vessels that could not hold food or water any better for the additional labor put upon them, made her heart go out to those ancient potters. They had not only expressed their desire, but they had expressed it as beautifully as they could. Food, fire, water, and something else-even here, in this crack in the world, so far back in the night of the past!....These potsherds were like fetters that bound one to a long chain of human endeavor." Willa Cather "The Ancient People" in Lorraine Anderson, ed. Sisters of the Earth. Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature. New York: Vintage Books, 2003, 184-5.

 

John Chalke and Barbara Tipton's conduct wood-fire workshops each summer.  For more information go to www.upcountrykilns.com 
 

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