A Saturday Morning Class Turned Into This! | Hilda Carr | Episode 680

The Potters Cast

Paul Blais

Visual Arts, Business, Arts, Careers

4.9 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Hilda Carr is a potter, teacher, and recently turned author who works from the bottom of her garden in South London, UK. Hilda produces small-batch ceramics with a focus on the carved surface. The pieces Hilda creates are made to be used everyday with the hope that they will turn those seemingly mundane everyday moments, like making your morning cup of tea, into a treasured ritual.

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0:00.0	This is the Potter's Cast.
0:02.0	A podcast home for potters everywhere.
0:05.5	It's a community of potters dedicated to grow their business.
0:08.7	We're picking up where the art degree ends.
0:11.1	I'm your host, Paul Blaze.
0:14.2	Well, we just arrived in episode number 680 of the Potter's cast cast and welcome to the show.
0:22.1	I am so stoked we get to hang out together today.
0:26.0	And today we've got a great potter coming on the show, Hildekar,
0:29.5	and we are going to be talking about how she took a Saturday morning class
0:34.4	and she turned it into all of this clay life and so it's going to be fun to talk
0:41.1	about now I wanted to talk about in in lieu of the title of today's episode a Saturday morning
0:47.6	class turned into this that's the title of today's episode We do have a class coming up on a Saturday morning
0:56.9	that is going to be all about how to take commercial glazes and make them your own. And the
1:05.5	person is going to be teaching that is going to be John the Potter or John Schmidt. And he wrote
1:10.8	the book Practical Pottery. And he's going to be John the Potter or John Schmidt. And he wrote the book Practical Pottery.
1:12.6	And he's going to be helping us to understand how, one, how, you know, what are the basics of
1:19.8	glazing? And then secondly, how to do advanced glazing with commercial glazes in such a way that when people see that commercial
1:30.6	glaze on your pots, they don't think, oh, that's a store-bought glaze. Instead, they think,
1:37.4	wow, how did they do that? I want you to be that person whose people say about your work, whoa, how does she do that? Because I think that John is going to really give us those kinds of insights. And so you can learn that from him. So that's coming up. You can get to that information by going to the potterscast.com. And right there at the top, there's going to be a drop-down menu. You can just click on that.
2:02.0	And it's called the Potter's Class, C-L-A-S-S, and you can be able to find it there.
2:08.3	Okay, so back to Hilda. Speaking of authors who've written books, she's written a book.
2:14.0	It's called Carve Your Clay, Techniques to bring the ceramic surface to life.
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