Liao Guo Hua
Taiwanese ceramicist Liao Guo Hua’s ceramics career began in 1994 under the tutelage of master ceramicist Ye Xing You. Ten years later, he opened his own ceramic studio in Nantou, and two years after that, hand-built his own wood-fire kiln on a hillside close to his home.
Liao Guo Hua’s work range in character and form, and includes both glazed and unglazed pieces. The common thread linking them is the sparse aesthetic of his forms, and his careful allowance of fire and ash to transform the color and texture of those forms.
Zhang Yun Cheng
Born 1970, Zhang Yun Cheng studied and trained as a sculptor, but shifted to tea ceramics after more than a decade in sculpting. His home and studio is located in Caotun, Nantou County.
Zhang Yun Cheng specializes in wood-firing, and incorporating other natural materials in his pieces. His works possess a gravitas that comes from years of experience manipulating clay, and transforming that raw material into multifaceted works of intense beauty.
Song Jin
Working in clay, cobalt and shino, Song Jin deftly crafts pieces that beautifully blend the rusticity of hand-shaped clay and wood-firing with the understated refinement of blue and white ware.
Each piece is then wood-fired twice - each firing lasting seven days.
Lilith Rockett
Lilith Rockett, a studio potter residing in Portland, OR, works primarily in porcelain. Her work, created by hand on the potter's wheel, reveals a deep interest in the subtle qualities of the material: translucency, fluidity, density, and the velvety softness of an unglazed polished surface.
Minimal in both form and surface, her work calls attention to subtle nuances of line or shadow, with a delight in the quiet imperfections that characterize the handmade.
