Following Your Passion | Nicola Gillis | Episode 1123
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Brighton, U.K. based ceramicist, Nicola Gillis makes functional tableware. Nicola takes inspiration from the East Asian use of tableware, a specific purpose for each vessel and where pleasure is drawn from individuality. Although there are commonalities, she does not seek to replicate exact size or marks and embraces imperfection. Shadows and light on daily walks throughout the seasons and the beauty found in degraded surfaces and patina also inform her work. Nicola has developed her interest in ceramics over the past 8 years, studying on the full-time Ceramic Development course at Forest Row School of Ceramics in 2019, and beginning to sell her work in during 2020. Initially using the wheel, Nicola developed her practice to include hand-building with slabs, carving, and coils, all of which she finds to be a slower, more thoughtful approach to making.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Potter's Cast. |
| 0:02.0 | 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 | Hello, my dear friends. |
| 0:16.2 | Welcome to episode number 1,123 of the Potter's cast. |
| 0:23.0 | Good night. |
| 0:24.1 | Did I ever dodge a bullet this past weekend? |
| 0:29.3 | Oh, my word. |
| 0:30.4 | I made such a huge mistake. |
| 0:32.0 | We were filling the kiln because my wife has got a show coming up here in the Pacific Northwest called the ceramic |
| 0:38.3 | showcase which is going to be I think it's next weekend not this coming Easter weekend but the |
| 0:45.1 | following weekend and it's like Friday through Sunday at the Portland Convention Center and it's |
| 0:52.8 | going to be amazing and I'm hoping you can come to it because I'll |
| 0:55.8 | be there. I'm going to be there not selling my work, but I'm going to be there supporting my wife. |
| 1:00.5 | Anyhow, we were, we were firing the kiln for this upcoming show. You know, she's got like a couple more |
| 1:07.4 | firings to do. And, but this was her bisque firing. So we ended up, you know, |
| 1:13.6 | filling the kiln. Well, she filled the kiln. And then it was time to program you. Like we program it, |
| 1:17.8 | like at, you know, with our, with our scut 1027 with the touch keypad. It's such a great kiln. So I'm |
| 1:25.6 | going to the touch keypad. And I like like to set up to where it starts firing in the |
| 1:31.3 | middle of the night. |
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