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Master potter Chris Prindl and wood-turner Matthew Patrick discuss the search for the perfect curve in their Korean Moon Jars.
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Chris Prindl
I feel so fortunate to be able to live in Cornwall, with all its rugged beauty
and freedom of spirit, and make Japanese-inspired pots.
I learned in Japan the importance of expressing grace and delicacy with smaller pieces and energy and vigour with the big ones, and that is what I have tried to achieve for the last 30 years. I work with an unusually wide array of clays, glazes and kilns, always searching for beauty in thrown forms and glazed finishes and hoping to add some loveliness to the world with fire and clay. I have been working in Trebyan Forge now since 2000, and it has been an inspirational place in which to create with all its space and light. Working with several different claybodies and three different kilns – medium electric, large gas and even larger wood and salt – I have been working on increasingly monumental jars while also producing the finest possible pieces in porcelain – power and delicacy. My wife and muse, Susannah, helps me with many important preparatory jobs from weighing out glazes to pugging the clay. I also have a great love of music and listen to a lot of chamber music and jazz. I’m lucky enough to play the viola in various Cornish orchestras and in chamber groups with friends. In another life, and with rather more talent, I would have happily been in a professional string quartet.
Chris Prindl at Music on the Moor
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