Introducing Chris Keenan - British actor turned ceramicist.
In the 90's, Keenan apprenticed with potter Edmund de Waal, and began his new career as a ceramicist. He works mainly with thrown Limoges porcelain, using a glossy, black/brown tenmoku glaze with a vivid, pale blue celadon glaze, and implementing a reduction firing in his gas kiln at about 2300 degrees Fahrenheit.
I love his work for both its functionality, yet its simplistic beauty, and thought he would be a good artist to focus on in light of us just beginning our work of throwing on the wheel in class. He is a great inspiration for making simple forms with minimal glazes in such a way that is still interesting and aesthetically pleasing to the viewer. He states in his artist profile, "I like clean lines and simple forms, and although I use a limited palette of glazes, I am still finding new ways of working with them to produce fresh decorative effects that complement the forms." (studiopottery.co.uk/profile/Chris/Keenan. More of his work can be seen on his website: chriskeenan.co.uk.
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