37 The Magic of Crystalline Glazes Tuscany Style
Instructor: Luca Tripaldi
Type: Throwing, handbuilding. Non principianti
Date: September 11-18, 2010
Students will explore the fabrication of their own hand built or wheel-thrown ceramic forms using a porcelain clay body while learning to create a surface receptive to unique Crystal Glazes. Crystalline glazes have a magical quality. The slightest movement causes light to dance across the surface of the crystals, revealing layered depths of colour and texture in a constantly changing rhythm. The challenge and fascination of this glazing technique is to recreate the process of crystallization that in nature can take thousands of years. Our instructor will also invite us to create unique ceramic jewellery applying this special glaze technique. Students will share housing in the beautiful setting of a traditional Italian villa 'Il Testimonio' enjoying access to the nearby towns of Florence, San Gimignano, Siena, Pisa, and Certaldo. Non-student partners and spouses are invited at a reduced rate.
Cost: € 1.200
Includes tuition, materials and firings, lodging, lunches, welcome and farwell dinner
 Luca Tripaldi was born in Turin in 1969. Graduated on graphic art before working on sculpture and then been taken by ceramics until he opened a workshop in Turin in 1999. He has been particularly interested on the development of smoke firing techniques and fascinated by the qualities of the surfaces that these processes can offer. In recent years he had a strong interest in studying and developing crystals glazes and carbon trapping. He is sharing a studio in London and has been invited to teach at prestigious ceramic schools in the USA.
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