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Timothy Weber
Primary Medium Clay
Secondary MediumClay
Description of Work Mostly wheel thrown functional stoneware with varied surface decoration. I also do raku which is also wheel throw, hand built, and mixed media.
Chapter Midstate
Company/Business tweberpottery
Website https://www.tweberpottery.net/
Artist Statement
Timothy Weber ~ Artist Statement I have deep affection for the medium of clay. A professional potter for over 40 years and counting, I have learned to appreciate its rich subtleties, varieties, and essence. With this understanding and accumulated technique I make simple forms. Over the decades my forms have become evermore simple. Throughout my hand-built and wheel creations simplicity of form is universal. Other deep influences are the lava flows in eastern Idaho (where I grew up), the topography of the western landscape, and the cultures of Africa, Asia, and Native America. I have two lines of work. My FUNCTIONAL STONEWARE POTTERY employs studied, direct forms—you know immediately what their purpose is. I rely equally on restrained palette sgraffito surfaces, as well as on smooth finishes in bold shades of red, blue, and green. In similar counterpoint, my glaze brushwork has both tight and loose elements that lean slightly toward Asia. My other body of work is MIXED MEDIA RAKU, very different in style and execution. In these more mysterious pieces I still carry my cultivated craftsmanship, but I marry it with spontaneity. This spontaneity is a perfect partner to the red-hot raku cooling technique used to bring forth earthy and watery surfaces. In the raku work evocative references to spiritual, religious, or iconic forms emerge as whimsical incarnations. The resulting looser forms are vaguely ambiguous in nature, but strongly allude to a great inspiration for me--primitive aesthetics and sensibilities. Entries, gateways, shrines, and rituals come alive with the addition of sculptural elements of wood and fiber. Because the raku-mixed media work is immediate—a creative improvisation—each piece often reveals its true meaning or influences only after completion. References to human-scaled architecture, dwellings and shelters, or larger forms like temple gates are repeated motifs. They all allude to communication. My conduits, channels, and flags are media of exchange.
Timothy Weber ~ Artist Statement I have deep affection for the medium of clay. A professional potter for over 40 years and counting, I have learned to appreciate its rich subtleties, varieties, and essence. With this understanding and accumulated technique I make simple forms. Over the decades my forms have become evermore simple. Throughout my hand-built and wheel creations simplicity of form is universal. Other deep influences are the lava flows in eastern Idaho (where I grew up), the topography of the western landscape, and the cultures of Africa, Asia, and Native America. I have two lines of work. My FUNCTIONAL STONEWARE POTTERY employs studied, direct forms—you know immediately what their purpose is. I rely equally on restrained palette sgraffito surfaces, as well as on smooth finishes in bold shades of red, blue, and green. In similar counterpoint, my glaze brushwork has both tight and loose elements that lean slightly toward Asia. My other body of work is MIXED MEDIA RAKU, very different in style and execution. In these more mysterious pieces I still carry my cultivated craftsmanship, but I marry it with spontaneity. This spontaneity is a perfect partner to the red-hot raku cooling technique used to bring forth earthy and watery surfaces. In the raku work evocative references to spiritual, religious, or iconic forms emerge as whimsical incarnations. The resulting looser forms are vaguely ambiguous in nature, but strongly allude to a great inspiration for me--primitive aesthetics and sensibilities. Entries, gateways, shrines, and rituals come alive with the addition of sculptural elements of wood and fiber. Because the raku-mixed media work is immediate—a creative improvisation—each piece often reveals its true meaning or influences only after completion. References to human-scaled architecture, dwellings and shelters, or larger forms like temple gates are repeated motifs. They all allude to communication. My conduits, channels, and flags are media of exchange.
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