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A collective blog for students and teachers at Tel Hai Pottery School,Israel

About Me

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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.

Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Blog the second

Mervat [sculpture teacher] writes:
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posted by Daniel the Potter | 3:47 PM | 1 comments

Tuesday, November 08, 2005

First Blog

This is an experimental group blog for the Pottery School at Tel Hai.And starting us off we have Yahel,one of three third (final) year students,who wishes to communicate thus:
I woke up in the mornning with a bad,judgmental mood.so I decided to do experiments with the slip-trailer.
It came out pretty funky and it gave me motivation to make more bowls.
Now,after playing around I want to make bowls that are planned for this decoration shape-wise...

posted by Daniel the Potter | 2:37 PM | 0 comments

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