In searching for further training we turned to England and Bernard Leach. We thought since we had responded to his book so strongly that this would be the sort of training that we would like to have. We saved money, during the summer went to Europe, and the first stop was to go to England, visit the Leach Pottery and ask Leach if he would take us on as apprentices.
In looking at these pots at the Field Museum, Alix [MacKenzie] and I both came to a conclusion individually but also collectively that the pots that … - Warren Mackenzie
In looking at these pots at the Field Museum, Alix [MacKenzie] and I both came to a conclusion individually but also collectively that the pots that …
- Warren Mackenzie
In fact, I believe to a certain extent a person today who starts with just clay, with no drawing and no painting and no figure drawing, still-life dr… - Warren Mackenzie
In fact, I believe to a certain extent a person today who starts with just clay, with no drawing and no painting and no figure drawing, still-life dr…
If you press-mold a pot or if you slab-build a pot, the work has got to take much, much, much longer than if you work on the wheel. And I to this day… - Warren Mackenzie
If you press-mold a pot or if you slab-build a pot, the work has got to take much, much, much longer than if you work on the wheel. And I to this day…
Things happen very quickly and they have to happen quickly in order to have vitality, which I think is essentially part of a good pot. But in additio… - Warren Mackenzie
Things happen very quickly and they have to happen quickly in order to have vitality, which I think is essentially part of a good pot. But in additio…
I make a lot of pots in a year's time and some of them are good and some of them are mediocre and some of them are bad. If they're really bad and I'd… - Warren Mackenzie
I make a lot of pots in a year's time and some of them are good and some of them are mediocre and some of them are bad. If they're really bad and I'd…
Here is this ability to explore ideas, but with minute changes, and then look at the results. Often you get so excited about what you're doing that y… - Warren Mackenzie
Here is this ability to explore ideas, but with minute changes, and then look at the results. Often you get so excited about what you're doing that y…
We'll be potters, we'll be painters, we'll be textile designers, we'll be jewelers, we'll be a little this, a little of that. We were going to be the… - Warren Mackenzie
We'll be potters, we'll be painters, we'll be textile designers, we'll be jewelers, we'll be a little this, a little of that. We were going to be the…
In working on a drawing or a painting, one can rework and rework and rework and change ideas until you get it the way you think is right at that time… - Warren Mackenzie
In working on a drawing or a painting, one can rework and rework and rework and change ideas until you get it the way you think is right at that time…
I find it really enriching to make pots which people are using and which they come in contact with, not only visually in their homes but tactilely - … - Warren Mackenzie
I find it really enriching to make pots which people are using and which they come in contact with, not only visually in their homes but tactilely - …
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