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About Me

Location: Safed, Galillee, Israel

Born in St.Alban's,Hertfordshire,U.K. Grew up in Welwyn Gdn. City,B.A.[Psychology] & P.G.C.E. Sussex University 1972. Worked for 2 years as class teacher in Fakenham,deepest East Anglia,where the kids called bees 'hodmedods'. Apprenticed to Robin Welch,potter of renown,learned jigger-and-jolley production pottery for a couple of years [my formal training],arrived in Israel 1977 on my way to Japan ,decided to stay,learned in yeshiva/worked with Jerusalem potters/met and married Helen/moved to Safed 1980 in search of cheap house/studio.Moved from electric kiln/rented studio to current studio [upper floor of house]and gas kiln 1984.I work alone [with occasional apprentices] making functional table- and kitchen-ware and Jewish functional ware in stoneware and porcelain,fire around 25 kilns a year,sell to a mixture of locals and tourists,teach at Tel Hai Pottery School,make wine and listen to music.

Thursday, February 09, 2006

Queen of Show

A spontaneous,evocative response to "vessel with stand" exercise-Shelly and Yahel.
I forgot to bring my tripod,available light was low,so these pictures are not of the highest quality,even by my low standards.If you feel your work has been misrepresented,or is missing,or if you have pictures or titles to add,or comments-please contact me- flatauer@yahoo.co.uk
I hope that by the next critique [end of June] you-the students- will have made this site your own...

Yahel [3rd year]

Shelly [3rd year]

Suffering for Art

Cold,wet students contemplating our words of [doubtful] wisdom.