A Board Member of Studio Potter | Hayne Bayless | Episode 859
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2022
⏱️ 88 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Growing up in Seattle, Hayne Bayless first got interested in clay when he found an old potter's wheel and kiln in a corner of the high school art room. The art teacher knew enough about pottery to point him to Leach's A Potter's Book, and that became his guide. Other than lessons with a potter in Tokyo as a late teen, Hayne managed to avoid any formal education in ceramics.
Hayne abandoned wheel-throwing early on, lured by the freedom that hand-building offers. He set up his first studio in a tiny basement he shared with a washer and dryer, a stack of snow tires, mice and the snakes that ate them. The workspace amounted to a little more than a hundred square feet. To navigate the cramped quarters he sometimes had to slide sideways, and since then it's been Sideways Studio. It also applies to a certain way of looking at things; instead of encountering an idea head-on, you might approach it from a different angle, even sideways. It can help avoid the traps of your own assumptions and biases. His studio is larger now and still cluttered, but he doesn't have to walk sideways.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is the Potter's Cast. |
| 0:02.0 | A podcast home for potters everywhere. |
| 0:05.0 | It's a community of potters dedicated to grow their business. |
| 0:08.0 | We're picking up where the art degree ends. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm your host, Paul Blaze. |
| 0:14.0 | Hey, what's kicking little chicken? |
| 0:16.0 | This is episode number 859 of the potterscast and super, super stoked that we are hanging out together |
| 0:27.4 | today. |
| 0:28.4 | Absolutely love that there is this thing called podcasting and there's this thing called the |
| 0:34.1 | Potter's Cast and that gives us the ability to be able to hang out together. |
| 0:38.1 | So grateful for all of that. |
| 0:41.3 | And I'm really grateful for today's guest today. |
| 0:45.1 | We've got Hane Bayless coming on the show. |
| 0:47.8 | First off, I've never met anyone in my life with the name H-A-Y-N-E. |
| 0:53.5 | What a cool name. You know, that's the first thing that we need to just put out there. |
| 0:59.4 | First time ever, first time we've had a Hain on the show, so so stoked about that. |
| 1:05.0 | But Hane is a dude that's been in clay for over 50 years. Do you know how you stay in clay for 50 years? |
| 1:19.3 | You just don't quit. That's how you do it. And that's what he's done. And his work is gorgeous. |
| 1:28.0 | You know, I talk about this a little bit in his show that, you know, when I think, you |
| 1:33.9 | know, how long ago was 50 years ago? |
| 1:35.7 | That's the 70s, right? |
| 1:37.8 | That's the 70s. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Paul Blais, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Paul Blais and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.