A Gatherer of Clay | Cathy Terepocki | Episode 1048
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Over the past fifteen years of Cathy Terepocki's ceramics career she's had a diverse practice exhibiting, teaching, designing, and producing multiple collections of work. The backdrop of Cathy's studio is a large expanse of forest, with a river close by and the Cascade Mountains in view on a clear day. The influence of living close to nature is also something that has worked its way into Cathy's design practice. Cathy is most keenly aware of it in her choice of surface decoration - patterns abstracted from nature, vertical lines that mimic bare trees or grids that reference orchard rows. Glaze surfaces are inspired by mossy fence posts or the speckled smooth matte finish of a river stone.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Potter's Cast. |
| 0:01.9 | This is the podcast home of the Potter's Mastermind, a community of Potters dedicated to grow their business. |
| 0:08.7 | We're picking up where the art degree ends. I'm your host, Paul Blaze. |
| 0:14.4 | Welcome to episode number 148 of the Potter's cast, and we've got a guest coming on today that is a return guest. |
| 0:24.2 | And this is Kathy Terapaki. |
| 0:26.9 | And the last time she was on the show was quite a few years back. |
| 0:31.1 | But she's back again. |
| 0:33.1 | And we had a great conversation about gathering clay and what that looked like, look, look like, |
| 0:40.5 | what that looks like for her. |
| 0:43.4 | So it was a really fun conversation. |
| 0:45.7 | It was great to kind of catch up with her again and ask her some questions about where |
| 0:49.5 | she's been, what she's been doing. |
| 0:52.0 | Then we dig into this idea of collecting wild clay, |
| 0:57.6 | which is really an interesting conversation. |
| 1:00.4 | Because I ask her about the ideas of like, |
| 1:03.7 | you know, |
| 1:04.2 | what are the challenges of doing that? |
| 1:07.7 | What is the process of making the clay? And then because of the way she does it, |
| 1:16.9 | Kathy is a really big person or really has a really big connection to her community. |
| 1:22.8 | And so she recruits people. So she kind of turns into a community project and I just absolutely love it. |
| 1:28.9 | So it was a hugely fun conversation to have with Kathy. One, just because it was good to catch up |
| 1:34.7 | with her. And then secondly, to kind of hear this process of collecting clay with a community. And I |
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