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A Nerikoni Maker | Celina Frisson

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Celina Frisson | Episode 1035

Celina Frisson lives and plays in the canadian rockies with roots on the west coast. Celina is a multidisciplinary artist with expertise in ceramics & design. Celina’s studio is located in Jasper National Park and she believes it is in her greater purpose to create art that connects people to their natural environments. Celina is here to create work that reflects fluctuating landscapes, activism with functionality to impact generations beyond my existence.

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Are there types of nerikomi?

Technically, yes, because you can have different variations of throwing it or hand building it. I believe the term for throwing nerikomi is called Agate and if you are hand building it is nerikomi.

How difficult is it to transition from marbling to actually creating a repeatable scene?

I think it takes a fair bit of planning if you want to do something like a repeating pattern. You have to almost think backwards because you are working at the cross section with nerikomi. You are never really ever working with a flat design. You’re always working with 3D blocks and working in their cross sections, so it’s very hard to actually manipulate a scene out of that.

Is it important to start with a white clay body?

That’s a good question. I think it’s totally users choice. I personally use a white stoneware but you can use porcelain or earthenware if that’s even available.

Are you also able to create nerikomi by layering clay bodies?

I think it is always worth trying before I go and tell you, Yeah, you should go and do that! Because honestly if the shrinkage rates aren’t the same that’s when you start to get the cracking. One of the biggest issues with nerikomi is where the seams join and if the shrinkage rates are different you might get some of the clay shrinking faster than the other clay. I like to stick with one clay body because it is the most predictable and your margin for error is so much smaller.

You mentioned two methods. One is agate using the wheel. Which is your go to method for nerikomi?

I think I definitely do a lot more hand building. So it’s nerikomi for sure.

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The Creative Act by Rick Rubin

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez

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01/05/2025
A Happy Maker | Lyndsey Roberts

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Lyndsey Roberts | Episode 1062

When Lyndsey Roberts was seven, her mother gifted her a toy potter’s wheel. That one gift sparked a bone deep, lifelong love for ceramics. Lyndsey went on to get her BFA in ceramics from UNCA, and has been doing her best to make her little seven year old self as proud as possible.

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What is your favorite tool in the studio?

Well, the Air Pen is definitely at the top of that list and I am not saying that because they pay me to say it. I also think the wet boxes are one of my favorite tools just because it gives me the flexibility to make work and take the break that my body needs in between the process of throwing and trimming. I no longer lose work in the meantime, every potter knows how devastating it is to spend hours making something and to miss your window because of the temperature outside.

What is a tool you don’t use very often but you would not get rid of?

Probably my metal ribs. I don’t like metal ribs very often because I tend to cut myself on them, but they are really great for specific things. If I am making a pot that I want a little extra detail I can take my Dremel and create a shape on a metal rib that will give me a template that I can press clay into and I can get a pattern from it. So, for that reason I keep my metal ribs around but I don’t use them for any other reason.

Who is one maker who inspires you to be better?

Danny Meisinger. I hope I am saying his last name correctly. I follow him on Instagram and I am lucky enough to have some of his mugs from NCECA. He throws big and throws these really big round jars, not jars, they are vases or bottles with tiny openings. I watch him to kind of learn and be inspiration for what I can do and hopefully one day I will be able to make large, round forms.

You devote so much of your time to making, how does art improve the world?

I think it makes it a happier place. It sparks our imagination. Which I think adults need more of, we take ourselves way too seriously. And art kind of demands your attention. It’s a wonderful opportunity to take yourself out of your own life and to immerse yourself in something somebody else has made that isn’t something that you would see normally and just allow your imagination to play with it.

When people describe you what kind of words pop up?

Lately I have been described as intense. (laughter) Creatively intense. I have very specific ideas of what I want to make. Usually people say that I am very funny. I definitely make people laugh a lot. Probably they would say that I’m a little weird or eccentric.

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27/04/2025
A Tiki Maker In Northern Ireland | Andrew Cooke

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Andrew Cooke | Episode 1097

Until age 40 Andrew Cooke was a car body repair technician until he was forced out of his career due to being diagnosed with arthritis. Andrew then went back to art as therapy and, after a foundation in fine and applied art, Andrew completed his degree in 2013 in University of Ulster in Belfast.

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When you approach a new piece you want to make what kind of inspirational sources are you drawing from?

I do go online and search or else I try to take something from our culture. Tiki is such a mix of different ideas and cultures type of thing so I really go with that type of thing. It’s hard to explain.

How does being the only Tiki maker in town impact your relationship with the community?

It’s funny because I was heavily involved in the local craft scene and all and it was probably Covid that really knocked everything back so I actually don’t see an awful lot of them now. Funny enough I had seen one the other day and she asked if I was still making Tiki mugs, because they do know I make Tiki mugs, which is nice.

What motivates you to continue to be a maker?

I think it’s in my genes, it really is. I am that type of person. I am just a hands on guy and I just love the satisfaction of making something and looking at it and doing it the best that I could possibly do. It’s a challenge, every day it’s a challenge.

How do you feel that your work impacts the world when people reach out and bring one of your pieces into their lives?

It probably gives me as much satisfaction as it gives them. I just shipped a piece to Australia and I can’t believe that somebody on the other side of the world took the time and energy to reach out and buy one of my pieces. It just blows me away. It absolutely blows me away.

Where do you see your work being in your life in say five years?

I would like to do more of my sculptural work, which I really enjoy, but I want to take time to do what I want to make if you know what I mean. I am not a big commercial maker by any means.

How has your education helped you as an artist and a maker?

It probably actually gave me more self confidence than anything. I am very much my own man would you call it. I do things my way. I find it very hard to follow instructions so it really just gave me the confidence. If I had not been to University I could not have reached out to you. I would not have had the confidence to do it. So I think that was the main thing I got out of it.

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

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17/04/2025