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Etsy Shop for Hatchvillepottery
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
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- DIRECTIONS TO THE POTTERY: We are at 494 Boxberry Hill Rd. in East Falmouth. Take the Route 151/Mashpee exit off Route 28 in North Falmouth, go east on 151 to the first flashing light, take a right onto Boxberry Hill. We're about a quarter mile down on the right, at the corner of Brady Drive. Call 508-563-1948 for more information, or email hatchvillepottery@comcast.net
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Patterns6 hours ago
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May5 days ago
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Transition5 days ago
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Le potier, Vivre en France, 1970.6 days ago
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Tavern Mugs1 week ago
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Breaking ground1 week ago
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Our blog has moved...1 week ago
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Making Lists2 weeks ago
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Firing Schedule2 weeks ago
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What A Lovely Life!3 weeks ago
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Kimita Kaoru Karastu Yunomi Video3 weeks ago
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Summer Workshop4 weeks ago
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A few things…5 weeks ago
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My studio5 weeks ago
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New Pots. Video1 year 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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