Ryoji koie biography of william shakespeare

"Ryoji Koie has an extraordinary way with clay. He handles it with a naturalness and playfulness which almost belies his skill and knowledge but which produces work of great freshness, sensuality and vigour.

He delights in the clay and selects material many potters would reject as unusable, stimulated by its character just as one might respond to an impossible but fascinating person.

Ryoji koie biography of william shakespeare

He has the open curiosity of a child but is able to focus this with sustained and exceptional intensity.

Koie was born and continues to work near Tokoname, a major ceramic centre of Japan. He started to use clay when he left school to work for a tile production company.

This may account for his stamina and productivity. From these humble beginnings he has become one of the most celebrated potters of post-war Japan, however all his pieces retain directness and energy, a characteristic of hand production work, which may stem from this early experience.

Koie makes, apparently without inhibition,