AusBonsai

Latest pots:
Glaze detail pictures, sizes and more on the blog.

Happy Potter

http://www.bonsaipotterycoy.blogspot.com

HP.

They are all great but IMO.
1 2 and 4 are standouts in that order.

Well done.

I like the colours and shapes chosen. What size are these ones?

I hope you proceed to the selling stage promptly.

AG

I was lucky enough to handle these pots last weekend and can confirm that they are of a very nice quality with beautiful finishes. The lines are sharp and clean and the feet perfectly formed. Very nice pots!

Joe.

Great shapes and colours and you have that brushwork down pat. A very good job.
Penny.

Thanks everyone for the positive responses. That keeps me fueled up to keep at it.
Cheers,
Happy Potter

Another 4 pots have moved through the 'pipeline'. Some more new glazes not used before, with very satisfactory results. It's good to be getting predictable results with glaze and shape. More details and sizes on the blog. Hope you like them.

I'm trying to see if I can get up and hold to a rate of 8 to 10 pots a month at the moment, so that I have something to offer if the market is prepared to value the effort and also to try and build an inventory to take to Canberra in May.
So it's time to test the market to see if there is a place in the market for a local producer of pots like these and in what numbers. These lastest pots and 3 or 4 earlier ones should be up on the sale page of my blog over the next couple of days; just in time for Christmas!!!.

Cheers,
Happy Potter
http://www.bonsaipotterycoy.blogspot.com

Nice pots! like the last 2 especially.
the last one reminds me of a Humpback whale with the lines along it

What are the dimensions if you do not mind?

Ken

I made my first shohin pot today.
I've been thinging about a design for a while and then came upon a book of Chinese pottery, really old pottery. Some of the neolithic stuff is very attractive in a way the highly decorated porcelain is not. Anyway I saw a bowl which dated from the 10thC BC. So I've stolen the profile and turned it into an oval from the original round pot.
It took a two part mould to make it. This first version is pretty smooth but I can see versions which get a bit roughed up with some incised patterning and only a little oxide stain for colour.
The foot ring structure is quite tall but fits with the overall design well. The bottom of the pot is where it necks in to the narrow point. I'm trying to work out whether I should create an opening in the support ring or leave it as is?
The pot is currently 200mm long and that will finish up at about 175.
Here's another picture directly from the front.

Happy Potter

I really don't know where the last 2 months went since I posted about my first Shohin pot making.
It's taken all that time to finally get to glaze a few of them.
This one is the one I like the most. The final dimensions are 180 x 145 x 60. Quite a cute little pot.
I'm making these as giveaways for bonsai societies and groups I visit. I gave my first one away today to the good folks in Toowomba.
I hope you like the design - it is a departure from normal but only a small one.

Happy Potter

Sorry Ken for not answering your question from so long ago but the pots you were asking about were 350 to 400 in length,250 to 300 wide and 80 to 85 deep. The actual dimensions of each pot are noted in the gallery page of my blog.

Today I opened up my kiln after another firing and have some new shohin sized pots, in a variety of designs.
These pots range in size from about 170 to 185 in length, 120 to 135 in width and 45 to 51 in height.

I also had three intermediate sized ovals in the firing and I'll post these soon.
Cheers,
Happy Potter

Hi HB, I like these latest shohin pots especially the last one! Do you plan to sell these, or are these for personal experience? Keep 'em coming

Hi HP
Wow, this post has been great for me to read. Im beginning my pottery journey today by meeting with a local potter with the same goals in mind, to make my own pots. I have no experience what so ever at this craft so I might not like it at all, but I seem to be more and more drawn to it so Ill have a red hot go. Is there any wisdom you could pass on or questions that you asked when you first dove into this art, that you would be willing to share?
Your pots look great and the minimalistic style is something that I hope to become good at myself. Sometimes less is more, any good designer will say the same thing.
All the best on your journey, thanks for the inspiration.
Damian

Thanks Ryan,
I'm making them for myself but also for sale. I started just because I needed pots for my own trees and couldn't find the look I wanted.
I have a sales page on my blog.
And to you to Damian, thanks. Advice; well read a lot but more importantly experiment with everything, really observe and try to understand what's happening and why, get to understand the behaviour of the materials and take lots of notes of what you've done to link cause and effect. But it's great fun and I hope you enjoy it.
Happy Potter

I have a few more new pots which I've not posted here before, to show. These go back a few weeks now - I've been away for a while.
This one is an oval pot about 395 x 290 x 76 in buttermilk cream glaze. This is a commission pot, which I'll be taking to Sydney in a couple of weeks. The pot is intended for a very nice trident maple.
Another oval with squared flange rim about 415 x 305 x 85, in mottled blue. Also good for a deciduous tree. I have some lilly pillys in blue pots which look great.
This one and the next are rectangular pots about 360 x 250 x 78. This one in a plum red brown and then next in a more brown brown with a crystalline flec.
The last two, with feet glazed as well. are designed to have surface finish and colour which replicate some of the better quality unglazed asian pots. If only we could get those sorts of specialised clays here.

I have some more pots in the making as we speak, some commissioned and some available. I'm going to the conference in Canberra in May, driving from Brisbane and through Sydney with pots to deliver in Sydney as well as take as many as I can to Canberra.
If anyone would like to see some of my pots either as I pass through or in Canberra by all means get in touch through ausbonsai or vis my blog email at http://bonsaipotterycoy.blogspot.com and we'll see how to schedule a viewing.
cheers,
Happy Potter