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We Talk About Shipping And Making | Lisa Fleming | Episode 1146
Lisa Fleming | Episode 1146
Lisa Fleming Ceramics is based in San Francisco, CA where she makes one of a kind, wheel thrown, porcelain vessels. Lisa’s design-driven pieces focus on elegant silhouettes, simple yet sophisticated lines, and delicate balance. Lisa makes all her glazes and colored clays in her studio and loves to experiment!
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GRPotteryForms.com
diamondcoretools.com
Number 1 brand in America for a reason. Skutt.com
For all your ceramic needs go to Georgies.com
Do you feel that creativity needs focus?
Sometimes. I know that I personally need focus, I need quiet, and very few distractions to create. That being said I think creating is a constant process so I know it’s happening in the background when I’m with my family or with a friend or at a museum or reading something or looing at Instagram, whatever it is it’s happening in the background all the time. So I don’t think I can say that it’s only in those moments of quiet focus.
You mention on your website that you make aesthetic vessels. What makes a vessel an aesthetic vessel?
For me, I think that means that it’s a way of saying that it is decorative. I get the question a lot. What’s this for? And people really want it to be for their soup or their cereal or to put flowers in or to throw their keys in, but once it’s yours you can do whatever you want with it. But for me they are meant to just sit there and look beautiful.
What does that mean for you that you put the emphasis on silhouette?
So you can see when I photograph my work that I’m doing it from somewhat of a low perspective. I really want to see the line of the piece, from the lip to the foot the silhouette that it holds in space. I throw with a mirror behind my wheel so that I am looking from the top when I’m making, I can see it from the side and the bottom.
Why to you make your own glazes instead of taking that extra step out and going commercial?
Well probably because I found very few commercial glazes that I liked. But also because of the program I did, we did make our own glazes and we had access to almost any ingredient we needed. I tested probably a couple of hundred glazes over the course of my program and came up with some that I really loved.
How does having a fine art background influence your work today?
You know that’s really hard to answer. I think it’s so pervasive through all aspects of my work from forms that I have seen in art, though the centuries we can look at vessels that are ancient and vessels that are new. There are no end to the forms. And also in the photographs that I take I talk about the work in the way I put pieces together in relationships. I think all of it is informed by so many things I have learned over time.
Contact
lisaflemingceramics.com
Instagram: @lfceramics
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By Show Notes – The Potters CastLisa Fleming | Episode 1146
Lisa Fleming Ceramics is based in San Francisco, CA where she makes one of a kind, wheel thrown, porcelain vessels. Lisa’s design-driven pieces focus on elegant silhouettes, simple yet sophisticated lines, and delicate balance. Lisa makes all her glazes and colored clays in her studio and loves to experiment!
SPONSORS
You can help support the show!
GRPotteryForms.com
diamondcoretools.com
Number 1 brand in America for a reason. Skutt.com
For all your ceramic needs go to Georgies.com
Do you feel that creativity needs focus?
Sometimes. I know that I personally need focus, I need quiet, and very few distractions to create. That being said I think creating is a constant process so I know it’s happening in the background when I’m with my family or with a friend or at a museum or reading something or looing at Instagram, whatever it is it’s happening in the background all the time. So I don’t think I can say that it’s only in those moments of quiet focus.
You mention on your website that you make aesthetic vessels. What makes a vessel an aesthetic vessel?
For me, I think that means that it’s a way of saying that it is decorative. I get the question a lot. What’s this for? And people really want it to be for their soup or their cereal or to put flowers in or to throw their keys in, but once it’s yours you can do whatever you want with it. But for me they are meant to just sit there and look beautiful.
What does that mean for you that you put the emphasis on silhouette?
So you can see when I photograph my work that I’m doing it from somewhat of a low perspective. I really want to see the line of the piece, from the lip to the foot the silhouette that it holds in space. I throw with a mirror behind my wheel so that I am looking from the top when I’m making, I can see it from the side and the bottom.
Why to you make your own glazes instead of taking that extra step out and going commercial?
Well probably because I found very few commercial glazes that I liked. But also because of the program I did, we did make our own glazes and we had access to almost any ingredient we needed. I tested probably a couple of hundred glazes over the course of my program and came up with some that I really loved.
How does having a fine art background influence your work today?
You know that’s really hard to answer. I think it’s so pervasive through all aspects of my work from forms that I have seen in art, though the centuries we can look at vessels that are ancient and vessels that are new. There are no end to the forms. And also in the photographs that I take I talk about the work in the way I put pieces together in relationships. I think all of it is informed by so many things I have learned over time.
Contact
lisaflemingceramics.com
Instagram: @lfceramics