“Sacred Clay” (Red Lightning World, 2006) brings together three highly acclaimed artists in an intimate and improvisational dialogue that gives voice to our primal origins within the earth, and breathes life into all things created of the earth; our vesels, our instruments, ourselves. Ceramic Artist Rod Kendall of Olympia, WA creates ceramic versions of traditional ethnic instruments from the modern and ancient worlds as well as his own unique creations...

Ameyu Vase with Cobalt, gosu lattice decoration. Stone ware 10.75" X 5.5" Stoneware collared vase with rich amber, ameyu glaze and vibrant cobalt decoration.

Ameyu amber glazed wall bowl, shallow bowl with a rich gosu cobalt decoration of a rain patter. Stoneware made to hang as an option. 13.5" X 3"

Chinese influenced lobed serving bowl with amber Ameyu glaze and rich gosu cobalt deoration. This makes an excellent popcorn bowl!

Stoneware

10" X 5"

Functional, decorative and food safe!

Black and white raised slipware fish tray based on whimsical Old English slipware designs

Terra Cotta and slips

13" X 9" X 2"

Functional, decorative and food safe!

Modern temmoku and ash glazed chawan, teabowl with vivid hakeme (hakame) slip technigue

Stoneware

5.4" X 4"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Modern temmoku and ash glazed chawan, teabowl with stamped decoration inspired by the English and Japanese traditions

White Stoneware

5.25" X 4"

Functional, decorative and food safe!

Rich Oribe influenced candlestick or vase for dry arrangements, pierced with a circle, square and triangle design representing Sengai's universe. This piece is inspired by one of my favorite antigue Japanese pots.

Stoneware with traditional Oribe glaze

7.75" X 4"

Oribe style mizusashi, water jar with hakeme (hakame) slip decoration under the lustrous glaze

Stoneware, slip and traditional Oribe glaze

6.25" X 6.25"

Resist design crane neck style vase with slips and Harmony pattern under a lustrous glaze

Stoneware, slips and several glazes

10.25" X 5.6"

Terra cotta serving bowl with hand carved "grass" pattern

Terra Cotta, slip and glaze

9.75" X 3.75"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Large, oburi teabowl with a rich and semi-translucent Temmoku glaze over a vivid masame pattern impressed design, a wonderfully tactile chawan

White Stoneware and Temmoku glaze

5.75" X 4.2"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Elegant cylindrical neriage chawan in the Jovian Storms pattern with impressed design at four points of the circumferance, the tones run from grey, charcol, black and white, the interior is mostly muted charcol gray

Porcelain and glaze

5.3" X 4.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Robust temmoku glazed vase form with vivid masame patterned texture through out the body of the vase

Stoneware and temmoku glaze

9.8" X 6.4"

Rozome style covered jar with the repeated resist designs of the character, Mu. Mu means "nothingness" in Zen Buddhism, think of the possibilities for such a jar! The green overglaze is very reminiscent of Japanese Fujina style glazes and is very rich in person

Stoneware, slips and glazes

9" X 7.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe!

Persian, Raqqa glazed Ido style chawan with rozome underglaze decoration of grasses

White earthenware, black underglaze decoration and traditional Persian blue glaze

6" X 3.6"

Please note, this piece is made using traditional pourous white earthenware and a soft fritted glaze. Though it is food safe and functional, it is not intended for everyday use.

Mingei influenced stark white slipped bottle vase with dramatic hakame executed with a stiff boar's fur brush. This shape is a bit reminescent of Scandanavian form of the 1950's

Stoneware, slip and glaze

10.2" X 5.5"

Tall cap jar decorated with repeated hiragana design in the rozome technique

Stoneware, slips, glazes

12" X 6.6"

Ame glazed yunomi (unomi), teacup with rozome style cobalt decoration of spirals

Stoneware, glaze and overglaze

4" X 4"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Amber glazed (Ameyu) teapot with cobalt decoration high-lighting the body of the piece

Stoneware, glaze and overglaze

8" X 5.75" X 9.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Temmoku and Haiyu (ash) glazed teabowl with a fully textured design around the body of the bowl. In the right light, the iridescent nature of the ash glaze is very evident

Stoneware and glazes

5.25" X 4.3"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Medieval styled jug form with a rich and lusterous temmoku glaze and haiyu ash accent decoration

Stoneware and glazes

10.8" X 7"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Rich temmoku glazed pedestal style teabowl, chawan with impressed design. This glaze is very rich and has a luster on the glaze surface and looks different in various light sources, a simple but complex glaze

Porcelain and glaze

5.5" X 4.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Rich temmoku glazed Rhytnmos (rhythm) style teabowl, chawan. This glaze is very rich and has a luster on the glaze surface and looks different in various light sources, a simple but complex glaze

Porcelain and glaze

5.6" X 4.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Large ships bottle form decanter with ameyu and gosu glazes (Not intended for use with hot liquids)

Stoneware, glaze and overglaze

10.25" X 8.8"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Ameyu and Haiyu ash glazed teabowl, chawan based on a Chinese stem cup of the Ming Dynasty. There are some wonderful, fat glaze rolls inside the bowl and at the foot.

Porcelain and glazes

5.35" X 3.6"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Old English style glazed yunomi (#2), teabowl with a repeat pattern of impressed medieval designs

Porcelain and glaze

4.25" X 4.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Old English style glazed yunomi (#1), teabowl with a repeat pattern of impressed medieval designs

Porcelain and glaze

4.25" X 4.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Rich temmoku and haiyu ash glazed chawan with "Shono" rain pattern showing through the glaze. This glaze effect is rich and complex and the photos do not capture it's full complex depth

Stoneware, slip and glazes

5.2" X 4.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Richly glazed cap jar with rozome ideogram style designs around the jar and on the lid. This glaze is very reminiscent of Old English or Fujina lead glazes without any lead!

Stoneware, slips and glazes

8" X 7"

Shallow Oribe style wall bowl with alternating areas of mon (gate) designs and a rich lustrous Oribe glaze. The bowl is made so that it may hang if desired

Stoneware, slips and glazes

11.85" X 2.9"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Thrown, altered and assembled Oribe vase based on a traditional Japanese Dotaku, bell form. Traditional Oribe glaze and panels of white and black stripes on either side

Stoneware, slips and glazes

8.75" X 5.75" X 7.25"

Korean Contemporary Buncheong Ceramic Art by Kim See Man. Buncheong is a unique and centuries-old style of ceramics characterized by a white slip surface that is usually decorated in a spontaneous and expressive manner. This has been imitated in Japan's mishima ware...

Korean Contemporary Buncheong Ceramic Art by Kim See Man. Buncheong is a unique and centuries-old style of ceramics characterized by a white slip surface that is usually decorated in a spontaneous and expressive manner. This has been imitated in Japan's mishima ware...

Korean Contemporary Buncheong Ceramic Art by Kim See Man. Buncheong is a unique and centuries-old style of ceramics characterized by a white slip surface that is usually decorated in a spontaneous and expressive manner. This has been imitated in Japan's mishima ware...

Richly glazed Rozome teabowl in stacked stones form with hiragana repeat design

Stoneware, slips and glazes

5" X 4.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Lidded storage jar with ameyu, amber glaze and a copper luster rain pattern

Stoneware and glazes

11" X 8"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Large banded teabowl in rich Oribe and temmoku glazes in a Strata pattern

Stoneware and glazes

6" X 3.65"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Waisted style yunomi glazed in a rich Oribe style glaze; the left yunomi with impressed designs around and the right yunomi with underglaze "walking spirals" designs

Stoneware, slips and glazes

Each approximately 4.25" X 3.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Bulbous vase form with grasses repeat design under a rich Ao glaze

Stoneware, slips and glazes

6.75" X 6"

Medieval influenced jug with repeated impressed design around the apex of the jug with a further stamp at the base of the rounded handle. Though this glaze simulates "galena" glazes, it is lead free and food safe!

Stoneware and glazes

8" X 6.75"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Ao glazed wide footed teabowl, chawan form, with a Shono pattern around the bowl

Stoneware, slip and glazes

4.75" X 4"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Thrown and altered flask vase with a rich Oribe glaze over a stylized Enso

Stoneware and glazes

9.5" X 7" X 5.5"

Rich temmoku glazed vase form with archaic inspired impressed decoration around the body

Stoneware and glaze

8.25" X 6"

Large ovoid baker form glazed in a classical Oribe pattern of "mon" gate devices. Thrown and altered with applied lug handles

Stoneware, slips and glazes

15.75" X 5.75" X 5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Ao glazed, thrown and altered vase form with panels of Shono rain pattern

Stoneware, slip and glazes

8.25" X 7.5" at it's widest

Rich glazed hakeme (hakame) waisted vase with lustrous Oribe glaze on the exterior and complex temmoku on the interior

Stoneware, slip and glazes

10" X 6"

Modernist style tokkuri, sake bottle with Ao and clear glaze over brushed slip.

Stoneware, slip and glazes

7" X 4"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Robust hakeme (hakame) vase with a bold, expressionist style glaze splash inspired by the bold "ink traces" of Nantembo the famous Zen calligrapher

Stoneware, slip and glazes

7.7" X 6.75"

Oribe and temmoku glazed lobed vase with impressed medallion within each section. The footring has an small area where glaze ran

Stoneware and glazes 9.25" X 6"

Medieval influenced cap jar with a rich galena style glaze over a medallion repeat design. Though galena influenced, this is a lead free glaze!

Stoneware and glazes

8.5" X 6.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Rich Oribe influenced mizusashi with hakeme (hakame) and impressed design. In the firing, the glaze ran off the pot to form a dragonfly eye style drip. The drip makes the pot a bit uneven, but I could not bring myself to grind off the drip. The foot can easily be stabilized with the addition of two felt pads

Stoneware, slip and traditional Oribe glaze

5.75" X 8.6"

Oribe glazed covered box forms, each resting on three feet cut from the footring.

#1 measures 4.75" X 4.75" and has an over all repeat pattern resembling farm fields from an aerial view

#2 measures 4.5" X 5.25" and has two different impressed medallion designs used originally in medieval pottery

Stoneware and traditional Oribe glaze

Robust terra cotta teabowl with black and white combed slip

Terra cotta, slips and glaze

5" X 4.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Robust medieval style jug with impressed design under an Ao-glaze with frogskin qualities, great as a jug or vase

Stoneware and glazes

10.5" X 7"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Generous medieval galena style yunomi, teacup with a rich galena style glaze over an incised "intersection" design. Though galena influenced, this is a lead free glaze!

Stoneware and glazes

4.5" X 3.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Lustrous green Oribe glazed chawan over a combed "breaking waves" pattern highlighted with an underglaze wash of purple-brown

Stoneware, slip, wash and glaze

5.5" X 3.85"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Large hakeme (hakame) decorated covered jar with a medieval green splash on the front, back and lid

Stoneware, slip and glazes

13.5" X 7.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Large and robust porcelain chawan with a tataki (paddled) style netting design around the bowl and richly glazed in Ao and clear.

Porcelain and glazes

5.6" X 3.85"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Lyrical blue and white teabowl with a droozy rich blue decoration representing Sengai's Universe from his Zen parable and zenga. The circle/square/triangle is repeated twice around the apex of the chawan

Porcelain, underglaze gosu blue and glaze

5.25" X 4"

Functional, decorative and food safe