Ribbing and Stretching Lively Marks into Thrown and Altered Pottery Nick Joerling

Nick Joerling likes to make pots that are “active in the mind and imagination.” He achieves this goal by making gestural marks with simple tools on the wheel and then stretching and bending the clay to enhance those marks. In today’s post, I have compiled some highlights of how Nick creates his animated “Envelope Vase,” which are excerpted from his video Gesture and Form: Throwing and Handbuilding.  – Jennifer Poellot Harnetty, editor

This clip was excerpted from Gesture and Form: Throwing and Handbuilding, which is available in the Ceramic Arts Network Shop!

To learn more about Nick Joerling or to see more images of his work, please click here.