The Potter’s Dictionary of Materials and Techniques:

 
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Janet Hamer with Hawaiian goose
Frank Hamer with large salmon dish

Frank Hamer

 

Janet Hamer

Frank and Janet Hamer operate their workshops in rural Wales. Each works in a different area of ceramics but they share the use of four kilns.

Frank and Janet study ceramics on their frequent travels and both take an active part in ceramic events, particularly in South Wales. Their joint knowledge, experience and energy are combined in building and firing kilns, running courses and, of course, writing.

 

Frank Hamer

Part of Three Carp Plate

Frank Hamer makes press-moulded plates for wall display and use on special occasions. The work is decorated with fish using layers of slip and pigments with resist and sgraffito under transparent glaze. He likes to see the thickness of the glaze as it flows over the channels of sgraffito work, as it enlivens the coloured slips and fuses with the various added areas of pigment. He believes that ceramics should speak with the vocabulary of clay, glaze and colour strongly affected by fire.

Frank has been making pots for over 55 years and since leaving full-time pottery teaching has concentrated on making pots, researching, writing and guest lecturing.

Part of Two Bitterling Plate

Part of Large Salmon Server

Janet Hamer

 

Janet Hamer has been making, teaching and writing about ceramics for 50 years. Her central concern has always been the making. She has made tableware in earthenware and stoneware and now exploits these wheel-based and glaze skills in making nature-observed and imaginative birds in stoneware and porcelain. They are truly sculptures made in ceramics. There is excitement in the essentialised shapes and use of colour. Favoured subjects are ducks, geese and parrots. Slab built garden figures are also a recent interest.

Part of Great Crested Grebe

Part of Blue Macaw
Part of Mandarin Drake

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