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About Me
- Hollis Engley
- E. Falmouth, Cape Cod, MA, United States
- I make and sell functional pottery at Hatchville Pottery in Hatchville, a neighborhood of the town of Falmouth, at the west end of Cape Cod in Massachusetts. I'm a former journalist - 20 years as a photographer, writer and editor - who began to make pottery about 20 years ago in Alexandria, VA. My training is in pots for eating, drinking and displaying flowers, often with an Asian or late British influence. Hamada Shoji, Phil Rogers, Dan Finnegan, Nakazato Takashi, Kanzaki Shiho are all influences. Married 40 years to Dee, a massage therapist in Falmouth, with one child, Marcus. To see more of my pots, go to my website at http://web.me.com/hatchvillepottery/Site/Home.html
My Blog List
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September Diary 20242 months ago
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You are your own serendipity4 months ago
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Still making pots and tiles!1 year ago
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The latest in pottery3 years ago
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A Guide to Glazing Chosen Karatsu4 years ago
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Yorktown Virginia4 years ago
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Legacy Tools4 years ago
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Three tall pots4 years ago
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Marking Time4 years ago
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#20 decembrance 20195 years ago
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Marcus5 years ago
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It's Sale time...5 years ago
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Loving American Buttercream5 years ago
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Pottery requires Patience.5 years ago
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Photo5 years ago
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Tile Love6 years ago
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Bowls6 years ago
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Minis6 years ago
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Work In Progress6 years ago
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Decorating7 years ago
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Welcome 20177 years ago
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New Work on Etsy8 years ago
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Knackered and Chuffed8 years ago
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A caravan and a kitchen8 years ago
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New Blog8 years ago
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Les bons voeux de MHAD pour 20168 years ago
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New Year, New Thoughts8 years ago
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A final post on Blogger8 years ago
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Garland Prairie: One Year Later9 years ago
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Korean green tea with Edelweiss Shino tea bowl9 years ago
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Follow Me!10 years ago
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Musings on Ceramics Appreciation10 years ago
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Cone 6 Glaze - Revisit11 years ago
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Our blog has moved...11 years ago
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Clay in May at Windy Ridge Pottery11 years ago
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Adjustable Heights11 years ago
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A Closer Look with Brett Freund11 years ago
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BUCHERO NERO12 years ago
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After a long absence15 years ago
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Assiette. Plate.15 years ago
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Lee Kang Hyo15 years ago
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3 comments:
That looks great, Hollis. It's not that I don't appreciate the form and the use of a tea bowl, it's the mysticism (and often, the price) that seems to me to be a bit out of proportion!
I've enjoyed reading about Seattle and ETSY! I'm just now coming out of the glazing/loading/firing seizure that seems to take ahold each time. Lots of catching up to do.
I just counted 14 nice tea bowls within sight of my seat here at my computer!. And I don't collect them! A couple of yours, one of Ray's and one of Steve Lally's (I used to drink rough red wine from it) and a Mark Shapiro.
OK, Daniel, so maybe "abhor" was the wrong word. And there's no mysticism in mine, unless the buyer chooses to install it after he or she pays the price. Which is still not high.
Anyway, yesterday's snarky comment on my post set me off. I'm not completely over it, but I am going to shut up about it.
Sounds like you had a great firing. Got pictures up yet?
Hm. I think I missed the snark, which is probably good.
I have relatively no experience with tea ceremony, but I definitely appreciate the teabowl as a form, and I think there is ample mystery involved simply in the execution of a teabowl that expresses the tenuous and ineffable balance and proportion and weight that an almost-perfect chawan should/could/will possess...(yes, this is a pretty iffy description, I know!). In any case, I do think that making a great teabowl could be a life's work... And for me, there are only a few artists out there whose teabowls manage to hit those classical tenets of "beauty" and form, while also expressing something fresh and new within the rubrick...
But I definitely hear what you guys are saying. I think North America has "teabowl issues", and ultimately I'm not really sure what I think about it all.
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