Jomon Earthware Modeling / Tetsuou Ogawa Jananese Ceramic Artist

Profile Tetsuou Ogawa
I was born in Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture, Japan in 1968 and studied oil paintings at university.
After I graduated, I spent my days drawing oil paintings while traveling around Europe.
In 1993, I returned to Japan and was searching for a different path for my work.
One day, as I was walking in the woods, I saw smoke coming from a firewood kiln.
The fire in the kiln was so beatufiul and divine that I was instantly enchanted by the flames and decided to
devote my life to pottery.
The following year, I visited kilns throughout Japan at Mino, Iga, Bizen, Hagi,
Knratau, Tanba and Echizen. I learned how to make furnaces, fire kilns and mine clays
while I was visiting kilns to create more artwork known as *Kama(Kiln) Gure nagara.
I acquired all the pottery skills needed by working at a clay factory, clay mountain, glaze factory and pottery.
In 1998, I established my own kiln called 'Ogawa Kiln' in Ena City, Gifu
Prefecture and started my career as a potter, Tetsuou Ogawa.
I devoted myself to making creative potteries and by 2005,
I was able to host solo exihibtions several times a year at galleries and department stores around Japan
such as Kuroda Toen in Ginza, Tokyo and gained a good reputation.
I have never forgotten my original intentions and will continue to study and
work on raw material production, furnace construction and kiln
firing as well as my creative activities.
Having started out as a wandering painter in Europe and then becoming a potter who is
enchanted by the flames, I once again feel that "Life is filled with
mysterious connections" and fate can take some curious turns.
I've decided to devote all of my life to the firewoord kiln as I learned about the kiln
and realized that it was a joy and my duty to live with it.
"Kama (Kiln) gure", which is also the title of this book, refers to aspiring potters who are continuously travelling to create artwort at many kilns .
Tetsuou Ogawa official site
ogawagama.com

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hello, it's been 2 years since your last upload but do you have a guide for tying knots that you use as tools for decoration? thanks for the video it really helps me a lot!