Daniel the Potter
About Me
Born in St.Alban's,Hertfordshire,U.K. Grew up in Welwyn Gdn. City,B.A.[Psychology] & P.G.C.E. Sussex University 1972. Worked for 2 years as class teacher in Fakenham,deepest East Anglia,where the kids called bees 'hodmedods'. Apprenticed to Robin Welch,potter of renown,learned jigger-and-jolley production pottery for a couple of years [my formal training],arrived in Israel 1977 on my way to Japan ,decided to stay,learned in yeshiva/worked with Jerusalem potters/met and married Helen/moved to Safed 1980 in search of cheap house/studio.Moved from electric kiln/rented studio to current studio [upper floor of house]and gas kiln 1984.I work alone [with occasional apprentices] making functional table- and kitchen-ware and Jewish functional ware in stoneware and porcelain,fire around 25 kilns a year,sell to a mixture of locals and tourists,teach at Tel Hai Pottery School,make wine and listen to music.
Interests
- Pottery
- Badminton
- -tho' haven't played in years
- Table tennis
- Archery
- Obviously anything with silica in it
- Electronic things
- Forlornly-motorbikes-in this country-too dangerous
- Housebuilding and woodwork
- Cooking
- Origami
- Meditation
- Dictionaries and words
- Reading-but not necessarily remembering too much of what I read
- Is that too many?Soon-astronomy.
Favorite Movies
Favorite Music
Favorite Books
- Proust's Big Book-I'm up to vol.4 [which I don't have]
- Moomintroll books [as a child]
- Raymond Chandler
- Great Expectations
- Tolkien [a love passed on to my sons]
- O.Henry
- Graham Greene
- The list is really too long...
My Blogs |
Team Members |
| potsblog | Hana Loftus |
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| potmail | narda |