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The Potters Cast

Bonsai Pot Maker | Roy Minarai | Episode 954

The Potters Cast

Paul Blais

Visual Arts, Arts, Careers, Business

4.9590 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Roy Minarai began experimenting with making glazes and soon found that he enjoyed the process of making, testing, tweaking, and layering glazes as much as he liked making pots. Not long into making Roy was contacted by a leading expert in bonsai ceramics Ryan Bell, whose blog japanesebonsaipots.com is the largest most comprehensive database of potters marks, as well as wealth of information on bonsai ceramics. Ryan became a huge encouragement and soon asked about doing an interview. The rest is history.

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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.

0:14.4

Hello and welcome to episode number 954 of The Potter's Cast.

0:19.8

So stoked, we is hanging together today. We've got a great

0:24.5

potter coming on the show today. I love when we have people on this show that have this kind of

0:29.9

crossover in terms of interest goes because he is both a bonsai keeper, but also a bonsai pot maker.

0:41.4

He makes some pots for bonsais.

0:43.5

Now, I know I'm saying bonsai, not quite correct.

0:46.7

I think I'm saying the way most people say bonsai,

0:50.4

but I think that if you were to talk to the people who are in the know and actually

0:53.9

work at that, I think they say quite differently.

0:56.1

I think they say boncci or, see, I'm doing it wrong.

0:59.9

I'm doing it wrong.

1:01.3

I'm not even going to attempt to do it correctly at this point.

1:04.5

I say it more correctly during the conversation, but it takes a bit to get there.

1:10.6

So let's just say that he makes

1:13.3

amazing pots specifically to cater to that community. And wow, just amazing stuff. Now, he also

1:21.4

has been through some serious big family trauma. And I remember when that was going on back a few years ago.

1:30.6

So, yeah, I'm stoked to be able to get a little bit of a update about that.

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