Hi, Lee

Happy New Year!

We have talked before through your yahoo group. I thought you might like to see the many great clay artists I have posted in my site. Most are Nebraskan and all are talented potters. Please share as you like.

Thanks,
Carolyn

Since I visited your place in April 2008, and comenting about your
NUKA-TENMOKU, Now, I am leaving for JAPAN and just spending
10 days in MASHIKO for checking it out MASHIKO pottery works.

I am going to be around NANA-I area and hope to see other
Japanese potter's studio.

http://www.miaclay-art.com/

You make some great pots Lee! Also, I appreciated your comments about my tools. Thanks a lot for sharing so much here. I look forward to reading more of your posts on CLAYART.

Paul Nicholas - My pottery tools here at www.mtpleasantpottery.com

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Hello Lee,

Thank you for for sharing so much of yourself and your lifestyle with the world. I hope to build a manitoba style kiln base on your design. My I have your blessing? I know that sounds alittle strange but it would help me start off on a positive note. Good karma always helps!!!! My website will be up again by the newyear. Please have a look and tell me what you think.
www.theoldchurch.ca
kevin conlin, Marten Tagseth are friends, google thier names, you will like the pots.

Congratulations Lee Love San,
It is lovely work, it gives people like me an inspiration and something to aim for I'm 72 and now you have given me new examples.
Kind regards,
Brian {Croc}

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Hi Brian!

Thanks. You've made my day. Below is my current artists statement, so you will see why:
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I make functional pottery in an effort to preserve local culture in our modern throw-away society. My main goal is to inspire other people to make their own creative work. Human beings have always worked with their hands. We are creators.
We need both creativity and Nature to be healthy and whole human beings. Making and using handmade pottery is one way to bring Nature and culture together in human life. I intend my work to affect people who use it the way the green countryside affects someone who normally lives in the city: The fresh air and the green of the trees and grasses restores the soul and refreshes the spirit. If my work can do this, in a small way, it is sucessful in my mind.

Hello Lee,

I have built several wood kilns, one of which was an Olson fast fire. Modifications I would make and will make on my next one would be stoking fireboxes on the same side of the kiln, a feature you thought out well and designed. another was to put shelves that make the floor on a ledge, you did not exactly do that but I like your floor plan a lot. Also the grates on a ledge like yours is fantastic if I could find some sort of material like yours. Thanks so much for posting photos of your kiln online for others to view. Your photos of your work are just out of this world. Keep making such great pots and if you ever make to West Virginia come see us.

Gary Shaffer

Thanks Gary!

My kiln grates are long kiln posts. What they also have here that you might look into (and what I will use next time) are double lengthed soaps. They are called grate bricks.

Lee in Mashiko

thanks for posting these; what a beautiful book!

Lee, Thank you for the look at the Hamada tea bowls. It has left me with that breathless yet serene feeling one gets from nature - altogether a great way to start a day or a new year.

Cheers, Linda

What a priviledge to see!

Lee, I appreciate your sharing your insight with us here and on ClayArt. Inspiring.
Teresa

Sensational pots. Have to look a few
more times to decide my favorites.
Great glazes.

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Thank you Brooke! I have a few more pots from this firing I should photograph. Having trouble uploading them. I think my ISDN line gets flakey when it is hot.

Lee

Lee,

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your sincerity and your photos. Your work is great, as is your hospitality.

Alyss
Palm Springs, California

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Thank you Alyss!

Lee

Lee,
i always enjoy reading your messages on clayart, and congratulate you on your work, it is very wonderful!
elaine, in sunny saskatoon, saskatchewan, canada where it might just be the start of good weather

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Thank you Elaine! Hey I am 1/4 Canadian! My grandmother (maiden name Ethyl May Willis) was born in Berlin, Ontario.

Lee