"I Thank Myself" | Tarragon Smith | Episode 764
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Tarragon Smith was born and raised in Canada, but is currently living in the UK. Tarragon's background is in fine art with a BFA and MA in fine art. Through a natural progression Tarragon has moved into ceramics and makes esoteric functional ware and non-functional ware. Tarragon also teaches adult evening classes.
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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 | Hey, hey, and welcome to this episode of the Potter's cast, |
| 0:18.7 | which just happens to be episode number 764 of the |
| 0:24.6 | potter's cast. So many episodes, so much happiness out there. And I'm really excited about today's |
| 0:31.7 | guest because there is a lot of just heartfelt depth that comes in here. |
| 0:40.0 | I don't even know what that means, heartfelt depth. |
| 0:41.4 | Let's just say this. |
| 0:42.2 | I enjoyed deeply talking to him from my heart for the depth that he brought to the conversation. |
| 0:50.1 | That's probably a better way to say it. |
| 0:52.7 | Hey, but before we get to that, I just wanted to remind you, we had a great potter's class |
| 0:56.7 | last weekend that was just phenomenal. |
| 0:59.7 | We had Supatra Marsh talking and teaching us about how to do Kurunuki, and it was such a great |
| 1:08.9 | class, and I just thought that it would be something well worth you taking some time to check it out if you haven't been able to do that also. Also we've got on there. Don't forget there's there's some of you are thinking like I, you know, you're, you're into ceramics but you're thinking, okay, how can I make my glazes because the only thing you have access to are commercial glazes? How can I make these more my own glazes? Well, check this out. There's a class on there with John Schmidt, |
| 1:34.3 | John the Potter, that it's specifically how to make commercial glazes your own. And he really goes |
| 1:42.4 | into depth about how you take commercial glazes that are accessible |
| 1:47.6 | to everybody and make them your own glazes that is not accessible to everybody. So it really |
| 1:54.1 | makes your work pop and look different than everybody else's. So that's on there also. And I think |
| 1:59.1 | you would really thoroughly enjoy that class too |
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