Daniel the Potter
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | potter |
| Location | Safed, Galillee, Israel |
| Introduction | Born in St.Alban's,Hertfordshire,U.K. Grew up in Welwyn Gdn. City,B.A.[Psychology] & P.G.C.E. Sussex University 1972. Worked for 2 years as class teacher in Fakenham,deepest East Anglia,where the kids called bees 'hodmedods'. Apprenticed to Robin Welch,potter of renown,learned jigger-and-jolley production pottery for a couple of years [my formal training],arrived in Israel 1977 on my way to Japan ,decided to stay,learned in yeshiva/worked with Jerusalem potters/met and married Helen/moved to Safed 1980 in search of cheap house/studio.Moved from electric kiln/rented studio to current studio [upper floor of house]and gas kiln 1984.I work alone [with occasional apprentices] making functional table- and kitchen-ware and Jewish functional ware in stoneware and porcelain,fire around 25 kilns a year,sell to a mixture of locals and tourists,teach at Tel Hai Pottery School,make wine and listen to music. |
| Interests | Pottery,Badminton,-tho' haven't played in years,Table tennis,Archery,Obviously anything with silica in it,Electronic things,Forlornly-motorbikes-in this country-too dangerous,Housebuilding and woodwork,Cooking,Origami,Meditation,Dictionaries and words,Reading-but not necessarily remembering too much of what I read,Is that too many?Soon-astronomy. |
| Favorite movies | Don't seem to be seeing many movies these days... |
| Favorite music | everything except Country [sorry Hank Wangford],Also not Ray Charles. |
| Favorite books | Proust's Big Book-I'm up to vol.4 [which I don't have],Moomintroll books [as a child],Raymond Chandler,Great Expectations,Tolkien [a love passed on to my sons],O.Henry,Graham Greene,The list is really too long... |