Rowena Strain Potter | Artist

Rowena Strain Potter

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25.01.2022 This is where you can find my work

25.01.2022 I gave the Sisters of Our Lady of the Assumption their bowls yesterday. They gave me another cup of nice Kenyan tea. Thank you, Sisters, for the work you do here so far from your home.

24.01.2022 I havent made a plate in ages...

24.01.2022 Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in Leonard Cohen

22.01.2022 A beautiful project from the mercurial Vipoo Srivilasa.

21.01.2022 I think everyone needs to be reminded.

19.01.2022 Some good reading

18.01.2022 My good friend, Daisy Howard, worked with me to develop this bowl about her journey to becoming a Catholic in Broome. She knew exactly what she wanted painted on the outside of the bowl. A dry stick - being taken from her mother at 2 at Old Halls Creek. A rock - Moola Bulla, the harsh government station, where she played with the other children in the rocky hills. A banana palm - Beagle Bay Mission where she worked in the banana plantation with the other young mothers. A croton - Broome with her family and lovely garden.

17.01.2022 If you havent been to see the 2019 #shinjumatsuri Art Awards yet, you definitely need to check it out. Stunning artworks by talented #Broome artists. ***2019 S...hinju Matsuri Art Awards Winners***- - Aboriginal Art category to be awarded to no. 59; Sammy the Dragon Dancing in Broome by Theresa Sibisado. - Mixed Media & Textiles category to be awarded to no. 4; House and Garden - Life in an aircon donda [sic?] over a dry wet with dragons by Stephen Eastaugh. - Paintings (Oils & Acrylics) category to be awarded to no. 30; Adorned by Melissa Foster. - Photography category to be awarded to no. 46; Telsta Box - One Mile, by Steve Cutts - Sculpture category to be awarded to no. 51; Mamgu by Rowena Strain. - Teen Art Awards to be awarded to no. 62; When the Sun Smiles, by Joshua Anderson. - The overall Shire of Broome Acquisitive Art Prize to be awarded to no. 22; Conversations, by Jacky Cheng Visual Artist. #broomeartists #broomelife #lovebroome

16.01.2022 Mamgu would be very pleased that her little sculpture won the Shinju sculpture prize.

16.01.2022 A galaxy of oil spots in inky blackness

13.01.2022 Polo Ramrez nace en Chulucanas, Piura, Per en 1966, residiendo en la actualidad en Miami, USA. Realiza estudios en el Centro de Desarrollo Artesanal (CEDA) y ...se grada como Artesano-Tcnico, en la especialidad de Cermica, en 1984. Desde entonces ha realizado infinidad de exposiciones de su obra, tanto individuales como colectivas, en Per, USA, Australia, Mxico, Colombia, Francia, Guatemala, Costa Rica y El Salvador, entre otros pases, compaginando su arte con el trabajo como docente. Polo nos cuenta: Mi tcnica de remos se remonta a la poca preincaica. De la manera tradicional, uso mis manos y pies para crear mis piezas de cermica. Mis materiales y herramientas son simples. Utilizo arcilla y herramientas rsticas como rocas redondas y palas de madera. Soy un artista tranquilo y meditativo. Cuando empiezo a trabajar en una pieza, surge la forma. No comienzo mi trabajo con una imagen en mi mente. En cambio, permito que la arcilla, la tierra, me hable. Hay muchas etapas para la creacin de cada pieza y la atencin al detalle es mi objetivo. Los jarrones ms pequeos se forman en forma de nido hecho por un pjaro peruano llamado "Chilalo". Segn la tradicin, este pjaro es un maestro Potter que construye su nido de arcilla con su pico y sus pies. Es este pjaro quien ense a mis antepasados a trabajar con arcilla. Hago figuras de pjaros para honrar al Chilalo y su nido. Las piezas estn hechas a lea con madera. Incorporo color mediante el uso de engobes de arcilla (xidos de tierra y minerales) y diversos procesos de ahumado para obtener los colores y el rico acabado negro por el que mi trabajo es conocido. La forma y el estilo de mi trabajo reflejan la dualidad de mi vida. El lado liso representa la belleza de la vida, el lado con textura rugosa representa los momentos difciles que todos enfrentamos. Mis diseos y colores estn inspirados en eventos de mi vida, mis antepasados, el mundo que me rodea y el universo en general. Cada pieza es nica y nunca se repite.

12.01.2022 https://garlandmag.com/loop/rowena-strain/

12.01.2022 Spot my little maiolica cups

12.01.2022 Rowena Strain, Broome based ceramist, will participate in the Kimberley Arts Networks Alternative Archive exhibition next month. Rowena was captured in action ...by Ben Houston Photography as part of documentation for the exhibition series. _____________ #rappnetwork #thealternativearchive #creativegridwa Country Arts WACulture and the Arts, WA John Curtin Gallery Cockatoo Co.Lab GalleriesWest

11.01.2022 Francisco Rodriguez, father of Pepita Pregelj, was born in Galicia, NW Spain, and worked as a shepherd from the age of 6. At 13, he went to the monastery to get educated, eventually coming to Australia to the New Norcia monastery. He met Pepitas mother, a Nigena woman, who was one of the Native Sisters at Beagle Bay. They married and started their own sheep station at Debesa, in Nigena country. He loved doves and she loved the ixora flowers. Pepita is with her sister, Cindy.

08.01.2022 Very fortunate to be part of this exhibition with some very inspiring artists! If you have time, take a read through this take on things by young up and coming journo Carly Laden.

08.01.2022 Does your pottery craft help you cope with lifes challenges? Does it do more than make you happy? Does it heal you too? I made a kinda vulnerable video about m...y depression and anxiety and how working with pottery helps. If pottery does this for you too, Id love to hear about it. Tell me about your struggles and how pottery heals and helps you, if youd be so brave? See more

08.01.2022 For Sydney people...

08.01.2022 Ive always wanted to do this glaze course. 40% off and I might be able to afford it. My glazes wont know what happened to them.

07.01.2022 A dinner set is slowly emerging

06.01.2022 I run a pottery group in my local mental health ward twice a week. People make all sorts of things. If they ask me what to make, I nearly always suggest a pinch pot.

06.01.2022 My entry in the Shinju Matsuri Art Award in Broome

06.01.2022 Mamgu, my much loved Granny. She passed away in 1968 when I was 8. She lived in South Wales, I lived in New South Wales. Im so glad my family spent six months in the UK just before she died. She was the most loving and kindest person in my childhood and I feel her looking out for me still. The building below is the Chapel she went to, New Bethel. She was buried at Old Bethel, on the side of the mountain, with a view over the valley.

05.01.2022 Im studying glaze chemistry online with Matt Katz. Its been amazing, challenging, daunting, enlightening... and the course is not even finished yet! These are my test tiles to date. All variations on the same glaze - a black oil spot glaze that Im coming to love.

04.01.2022 What do you think, Broome Potters?

03.01.2022 Leonardo and Linda Pioli with their bowl. Leo first came to Broome as a boy with his family. They were a family in mission sent by the Pope. When he grew up, he returned to Rome to live and met Linda. They married and had children, then returned to Broome as a family in mission. Their three lovely little boys speak more Italian than English. The images they chose for the outside of the bowl are all about Roma. The text on the inside is the Bible verse which inspired this series of bowls, in Italian. Pioli LeoLinda

03.01.2022 I like these slip techniques

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