As some of you will already know I no longer live in Rhayader. Sadly, after 25 years at Cefnfaes, I have moved away. Currently, I do not have a workshop although I do have a number of really good pieces from previous firings that are available. There are also pots still available to view in the showroom at Cefnfaes. Please call Lynne on 01597 810 875 to arrange a suitable time. If you are passing close by then please call as usual but the showroom is closed on Monday and Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. Hopefully, soon I will be able to re-establish a pottery but this will take time. In the meantime I hope to continue to find pieces by Hamada Shoji for clients old and new while trying to create the oppotunity to be able too make pots again. As you can imagine, not being able to work is frustrating to say the least and in the short term I would love to hear from anyone who might have a pottery workshop laying idle that I might be able to use.
A short slide show of scenes during the opening day of my show at the Goldmark Gallery in Uppingham on the 8th of November 2008. Mike Goldmark and the Gallery staff really know how to put on an exhibition. The exhibition looked amazing and was complimented by the new DVD which, together with a full colour catalogue is available from the Gallery. The catalogue contains an essay by Sebastian Blackie. Both the DVD and the catalogue are still available from the Gallery. Please email Vicki at the Goldmark Gallery and she will be happy to make sure you receive either or both.
I have a number of works by Hamada, Shimaoka and Hamada Shinsaku that were not shown during the last exhibition together with a few that were unsold. If you go to the page 'Hamada Exhibition' you will find a selection of pieces that are available for purchase. I will add new ones as pieces are sold so please check back from time to time. I am also very willing to email further images to anyone interested in purchasing a piece. Please email me details of your interest and I'll do my best to provide images to suit.
I am pleased to say the double box set DVD produced by The Goldmark Gallery has sold very well. Copies have gone to New Zealand, Australia, The United States, Holland, Germany, South Africa and others. In a film by Charles Mapleston that lasts 70 minutes viewers can see me helping to fire Ken Matsuzaki's anagama kiln in Mashiko. The camera also follows me around galleries in Mashiko where we find pots by Hamada and Shimaoka, a look at my exhibition of jugs at the Pucker Gallery in Boston and making pots in Wales including firing my own two chamber wood kiln. There are also in excess of two hours of extras that include more making sequences, a look at the Hamada Museum in Mashiko and discussion and explanation of my work.
The DVD is available from the Goldmark Gallery for £15.00 + £2.50 postage and package in the UK. Overseas buyers would need to email the gallery for the postage cost. email me details of your interest and I'll forward your enquiry to the Gallery.
Alternatively you can go directly to http://www.modernpots.com/view_article.php?article_id=194&sort_by=
PHIL ROGERS - potter is a book published in the United States by The Pucker Gallery of Boston.
Contained in this book of almost 100 pages there is an appreciation of my work by Andrew Maske previously keeper of ceramics at the Peabody Essex Museum in New Hampshire USA. There is also a question and answer interview with myself within which I talk about starting out as a potter, my life as a working potter, my influences and future projects.
80 full colour plates of my work are represented and the book the size of which is 8 x 11 inches with a hard cover and dust jacket. There are still copies available.
The publication price is £25.00 pounds.
To order a signed and stamped copy please send a cheque for 31.00 pounds (UK), 35.00 pounds (USA), 31.00 pounds (EU) to:
Phil Rogers, Lower Cefnfaes, RHAYADER, Powys. LD6 5LT. UK.All prices include packing and postage.
For those of you in the USA the book will also be available from
The Pucker Gallery, 171 Newbury Street, Boston. MAPucker Gallery - Tel 617 267 9473 or http://www.puckergallery.com
To have a book written about me rather than by me is a very special moment. I hope this book will compliment the pots that are owned by collectors everywhere and provide some of the background to the work I make and my reasons for exploring the avenues that I do. I would like to thank Bernie Pucker and his staff at the gallery, in particular Destiny Barletta and Emily Tevald for their hard work in making this project happen.
The Pucker Gallery really is an amazing place and if you are in Boston please be sure to call in. You will be received warmly and shown all four floors that comprise the gallery and which house an enormous collection of paintings, pots, sculpture and artifacts.
If you are a retailer of ceramic interest books please contact me regarding supplies for your outlet.
The Goldmark Gallery in Uppingham has quickly become the leading gallery in the UK dealing with Contemporary Studio Pottery. Situated in Uppingham, a charming English market town famous for it's public schools, the Goldmark Gallery, if you haven't already visitied, is a large gallery on two floors crammed full of paintings, prints and pots. Many of the paintings and prints are by the 20th centuries most well known artists including Hockney, Piper, Matisse, Chagall, Ceri Richards, David Jones, Robert Dawson and many others. Mike Goldmark and his staff are the friendliest bunch and make everyone welcome with coffee and sometimes even lunch! Please contact the gallery for an invite to their openings or to view the pots they hold in stock on 01572 821424 or at http://www.modernpots.com
A&C Black have published all three of the books I have written. Throwing Pots, currently in its third edition, has sold in excess of 15,000 copies worldwide and continues to sell well particularly in the USA where it is compulsory reading for a number of college courses. Signed copies of all three of my books, 'ASH GLAZES', 'SALT GLAZING' and 'THROWING POTS' can be obtained from me at the cover cost + postage. Please email or telephone.
The catalogues from my shows with the Goldmark Gallery are available from the gallery. Although a catalogue they are really finely produced books with essays by critic David Whiting and artist Sebastion Blackie. There are around 70 colour plates of pots and my workshop. I am very proud of these books because they provide a significant document of my career over a period of time. Mike and his son Jay did a great job of production and these books will form part of a series of monographs on contemporary potters that will have exhibited at the Goldmark Gallery including Matsuzaki Ken, Clive Bowen, Jim Malone, Lisa Hammond and Mike Dodd. Signed copies are available from me or contact Mike Goldmark at the Goldmark Gallery in Uppingham, Rutland on 01572 821424.
I have completely rebuilt the lower showroom to enable the work to be seen to it's best advantage. Visitors can now view pieces with suitable lighting and in a warmer, cleaner atmosphere.
Last year we refurbished the upper showroom to provide a space more suitable for showing pots to their best advantage. New, purpose built, display shelves and suspended lighting create a gallery atmosphere and a perfect setting.
I am pleased to say that my work is now also to be seen at the Harrison Gallery in Williamstown MA. Please contact the owner Jo Ellen Silipo for opening times. Also, in conjunction with the Pucker gallery there are pieces available at Earth and Fire Gallery in Leesburg, Virginia.
I have now purchased a digital camera! So, if you are unable to visit the showroom or make it to events like 'Earth and Fire at Oxford or 'Ceramic Art London' at the Royal College of Art, you can email me and in return, I can email to you images of pieces available at that moment.
Postage is at cost and there is no charge for packing. Alternatively, take a look at the Recent Pieces page on this website.
'Salt Glazing'
'Salt Glazing' was published in 2002 and continues to sell very
well.
'Salt Glazing' is a thorough look at the procedures of salt glazing together with an in depth study of 25 contemporary potters using salt in a variety of ways. Anyone wishing to have a signed copy can email me and I will send them one from here. The cost is £30.00 plus postage.
The second edition of 'Ash Glazes' is also available. 'Ash Glazes' has now sold more than 11,000 copies. The new edition is full colour throughout, includes a number of new practitioners and many new images of comtemporary work that employs wood ash.
I am about to produce a catalogue of new work available directly
from me. The catalogue will be a 16 page booklet in full colour. If you
are not on my mailing list and would like a copy please contact me
either by phone or by email and I will
make sure you receive one through the post.
When I am away, maybe giving a demonstration or at a fair, I am often asked about the pottery - what it looks like, it's setting in the hills of Mid Wales. I have included these two photographs to give you an idea of where I work and the beauty of the hills above the Elan Valley. In the first picture the pottery, a converted cow house, is to the right and even further right the chimney of the wood kiln can be seen. The house was built in Circa 1480 just after the end of the 100 years war.
The second photograph is the view from the yard toward the hills above the Elan Valley looking west.
I am slowly putting together a collection of pieces by Bernard Leach. If you have a piece of pottery or work on paper by BL I would love to hear from you if you are thinking of parting with it. Please email me.