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by Jon Williams | Jun 30, 2020 | Experiments, Outside
In an attempt to add further depth to my ceramic surfaces, I’ve been messing about with fire in the Pottery garden. I had dabbled with smoke firing once before in my role as an artist in residence at Evesham Nursery School. I have very fond memories of working...
by Jon Williams | Jun 23, 2020 | Artist, Exhibitions, Experiments, installation, Interactive Art, Outside, Social Engagement
https://jonwilliamspottery.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/QVUN7245.mp4 Tree Pringles! The latest incarnation of x30 or so wheel thrown disks. They made their debut at Fresh Air Sculpture Exhibition a few years back as a purely sculptural piece, stacked one on...
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by Jon Williams | Jun 15, 2020 | Experiments, Work in Progress
These poor little fellas have been thrown, slipped, cut, stretched and pulled apart on the potter’s wheel! I’m enjoying seeing how far I can push the material with the aim to capture or preserve the point of disintegration. It’s a tricky balance to...
by Jon Williams | Jun 12, 2020 | Artist, Work in Progress
Sometimes it’s just nice to see what the stuff can do!
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by Jon Williams | Jun 9, 2020 | Experiments, Outside
Something I greatly value about the making process is the emergence of an unexpected outcome. The potter’s wheel offers lots of potential for a creative ‘surprise’ and I always try to stay alert to the ‘happy accident’. The slightest...
by Jon Williams | May 21, 2020 | Exhibitions, installation, Interactive Art
Throwback Thursday: Electro Bees in the Black Country Aug 2016 Back in the depths of Winter 2015 Jon was approached by Creative Black Country to contribute a work of art for a field of ceramic flowers, being ‘grown’ by community groups in West Bromwich and the...
by Jon Williams | May 14, 2020 | Interactive Art, Social Engagement
Throwback Thursday: Making Together at Birmingham Settlement 2018 This was a year-long programme of inter-generational making based activity initiated by Craftspace and took place at Birmingham Settlement. I was one of six makers who got to work with early-years...
by Jon Williams | May 10, 2020 | Experiments
Really enjoyed making these three! They were produced at a time when I was busy experimenting with process and materials, using all sorts of clay bodies and firing temperatures. I worked intuitively and quickly, blow torching freshly thrown vessels on the...
by Jon Williams | May 7, 2020 | Interactive Art, Outside
Throwback Thursday: Happy Craft Play Project 2013 – 2014 Outside learning with nursery aged children in the depths of winter – chilly, great fun and a fine example of partnership and collaborative working! Just look at the individuals and organisations...
by Jon Williams | Apr 30, 2020 | Exhibitions, installation, Interactive Art
Throwback Thursday: Hereford Ceramic Sound Trail 2015 Having been inspired by the success of my solo exhibition Sensational Clay, I was keen to explore in more detail some of the threads I’d been developing for the show – particularly the sonic...
by Jon Williams | Apr 20, 2020 | Outside
Never been asked to make a pottery rabbit before! Chuffed to be asked by the lovely peeps at Puzzle Wood in The Forest of Dean to be included in their Great Puzzlewood Easter (virtual) Pottery Trail!
by Jon Williams | Apr 17, 2020 | Exhibitions
A couple of pots from the Museum’s ceramic collection that inspired Jon to make his interactive, water play ceramics for the exhibition MAKING HISTORIES currently on show at Leamington Spa Museum and Art Gallery in Warwickshire. The first two photos are of a...
