Bad Swan | Brendon Norton | Episode 1003
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Brendon Norton is the hand builder of Bad Swan Ceramic pots. Working full-time from his humble home studio in the South West of Western Australia, mainly specialising in Bonsai Pots and Ikebana Vases. Brendon's self taught journey into clay began only 4 years and has worked tirelessly to hone his skills in traditional techniques and his self derived methods.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Potter's Cast. |
| 0:01.9 | A podcast home for potters everywhere. |
| 0:05.4 | It's a community of potters dedicated to grow their business. |
| 0:08.8 | We're picking up where the art degree ends. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm your host, Paul Blaze. |
| 0:14.3 | Hey, thanks for coming to episode number 103 of The Potterscast. |
| 0:20.9 | So stoked, we are hanging together today. |
| 0:24.4 | Hey, I don't know if you're out looking for work as, you know, in the ceramic world |
| 0:30.5 | because there is an assistant professor of art in ceramics at Radford University in Virginia that has got an opening there. |
| 0:42.0 | And it's something that you may want to look at. |
| 0:45.4 | It's got a nine-month non-tenure track appointment with a starting date sometime in August. |
| 0:51.8 | So yeah, you may want to check that out. |
| 0:53.8 | That's coming up. It's coming up. |
| 0:55.7 | You want to get your license, not your license, but your application in over there. Perhaps that could be |
| 1:00.2 | you working over there. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. We've got a really cool potter coming on the show today. |
| 1:08.6 | His name is Brendan Norton, and he is from Australia. |
| 1:16.2 | So we are going to be traveling from the upper part of the world to the lower part of the world, |
| 1:24.6 | you know, relatively speaking from our perspective. |
| 1:28.1 | But anyhow, Brendan's got an amazing story. |
| 1:33.4 | He is the founder and starter of Bad Swan Ceramics, and it's an incredible story, heart-moving. |
| 1:49.4 | And I think you're going to love this story that he has to share with us today. So why don't we jump in this conversation that I had with Brendan Norton |
| 1:54.7 | right after this word from our sponsor. Are you ready to fall in love? Well, let me tell you why. It's the new |
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