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Richard Meyer
Medias Used or Areas of Interest:
Ceramics
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I do the work. I throw everything on a potters wheel. I dont use molds. I dont use employees. I do the work. Throwing, trimming, cutting, stamping, incising, carving. Bisque firing. Glazing for hours and hours and hours. Glaze firing to cone 03.
Ive been a potter for thirty years. I was classically trained by way of apprenticeship. Classicism appeals to me in a broad sense. Some of my work is evocative of the period of Greek antiquity. Athenian ware made around 400 B.C. has a strength and confidence Ive always admired.
From a hymn to Greek potters: If you give me a reward, I will sing your praises, potters. Come, Athena, and extend your hand over the kiln, and may the cups darken well, and may the vases be well baked, may they obtain a fair price, since many are sold at the market, many others on the streets, and may the profit be great
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This gives a glimmer of the value placed on the ware produced, but more importantly, suggests the notion that the potter was an essential part of the great society. In Athens the potters workshops and studios occupied an entire quarter of the city, known as Kerameikos. My studio occupies a space in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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