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Clay, Light & Water Margaret O'Rorke

Clay, Light & Water By Margaret O'Rorke

Clay, Light & Water by Margaret O'Rorke


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Summary

Focusing mainly on light, this handbook covers the complications of making lights and fountains in ceramics. This handbook uses step by step sequences to simplify this challenging area, and it looks at a variety of artists who have successfully achieved clay lights.

Clay, Light & Water Summary

Clay, Light & Water by Margaret O'Rorke

This book will give ceramicists wishing to tackle this challenging area a broad insight into the problems involved, and offers practical advice and pointers to enable you to successfully incorporate clay with light and water in order to produce beautiful and creative pieces. Combining an attractive design in clay with the technicalities of electricity or pumps is actually quite difficult, and this handbook explains and simplifies things for the beginner, identifying the problems and offering solutions and advice. How to incorporate essential electric elements is obviously crucial to lighting and fountains, and when combined with clay has the added problem of having to design and source all the elements separately to be combined after firing. The book focuses mainly on lighting, and through the work of many international artists, showcases a broad variety of pieces to inspire the reader. Chapters on making lights from start to finish, fountains and electrical information help to illuminate the process of combining clay with both light and water, showing that work can be made in exciting and innovative ways to include these aspects. This book aims to open up the world of lighting to creative and inspiring ceramic artists.

Clay, Light & Water Reviews

'...a very helpful starting-out book...' Nacorum and Chiltern Potter's Guild - 2010 'An excellent read and a must for any potter' Kent Potters Association newsletter (Aug/Sept 2010)

About Margaret O'Rorke

Margaret O'Rorke is the leading artist and pioneer in the field of ceramic lighting. Featured in two other books, Naked Clay and Ceramics with Mixed Media (both by A&C Black), Margaret has shown at an extensive list of prestigious places including most recently Sotheby's and Galerie Besson. Margaret set up her studio in 1980, and having taught in various colleges from 1975-1997 and acted as The Crafts Advisor to Southern Arts from 1988-2002, she is now a full time potter.

Table of Contents

Preface 6 1 Clay and Light: a brief introduction 7 2 An artist's approach 16 3 Making 48 4 Working with Industry 68 5 Electrical 88 6 Fountains 98 List of suppliers 108 Contributing artists 110 Acknowledgements XXX Index 111

Additional information

GOR006466645
9780713684872
0713684879
Clay, Light & Water by Margaret O'Rorke
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2010-02-15
112
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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