Paul Bohanna Ceramics

25/08/2024

So here's another one of my prototype teapots. This is the third one of this type, and either the 5th or 6th teapot I ever made. Hexagonal teapot, slabbed , wheel thrown, extruded, rouletted, and press-moulded. Earthenware with metal oxides and my own lead glaze. Probably available soonish on my website www.paulbohannaceramics.co.uk or contact me directly if interested.
Thank you for looking.
Paul

19/08/2024

Probably about time I showed some more of the pots I've been making. Here's one of my teapots (I think this is the 7th teapot I made - ever). Slab built with press-moulded and extruded parts. Earthenware glaze with my own method of underglaze decals (my artwork depicts man made microbes...). I call it "The Tea of Life".
It will be up for sale at some point soonish from my website: www.paulbohannaceramics.co.uk or you can try and nab it first by contacting me directly.

08/01/2024

Just a quick update about my pottery classes at the Sweeney Pottery for 2024.
I've updated my website (https://www.paulbohannaceramics.co.uk/index.php/book-a-class/) and added more details.
The main change is that I've now introduced a Saturday class!
If you want to join a class then book now! The start dates for 2024 are Tuesday 23rd January and Saturday 27th January.

08/10/2023

Just a quick announcement to say that I've now updated my Pottery Classes booking system on my website. You can now book and start a block of classes at any time during the year and your classes can be taken in either morning or evening classes, or both. You also will not lose classes if you cannot attend every week. The new completely flexible approach now means you can attend every week or fortnight or whatever suits you.
The hours have changed slightly too. All classes are still on Tuesdays, but the morning class now starts at 11:30am. Also all classes have been increased from 2 and 3/4 hours to 3 hours. No price increases for classes but small increase in fired clay charge.
Contact me directly to book classes as the new flexibility is impossible to fit into a 'booking system'.
For full details please visit my website: https://www.paulbohannaceramics.co.uk/index.php/pottery-classes/

11/09/2023

14/06/2023

ART-efact Oswestry Summer of Art events launch at the Qube gallery, Oswestry.
The line-up from left to right are:
Jean Atkin - Poet, Paul Bohanna - ceramics, Holly Maries - project facilitator and artist, Olly Rose - Mayor of Oswestry, Emma Cummings - mixed media artist, Joseph Schneider - painter.
The work on the walls is that of other artists currently on show at the Qube.

14/06/2023

I am delighted to announce that I have been selected as one of the four artists in residence for the ART-efact Oswestry Summer of Art events. This fantastic opportunity will give all four artists the chance to explore the Oswestry Council and Museum archives and to liasie with the Qube, Designs in Mind and the people of Oswestry. We will each be producing a body of work which will culminate in an exhibition in September (details to be announced).
The other artists I am lucky enough to be working alongside are:
Emma Cummings - mixed media artist.
Joseph Schneider - painter https://josephschneider.co.uk/
Jean Atkin - Poet https://jeanatkin.com/
The event organiser is artist Holly Maries - https://spores-on-mars.com/

01/05/2023

An earthenware hexagonal teapot with green lead glaze and additional raw metal oxides. Wheel thrown, slab built, extruded, press moulded, stamped and sprigged. The design for this teapot occurred to me many years before I got a chance to make it, this example is the very first one I made. I was experimenting with different clays at the time and therefore this version with a darker body clay will probably be the only one I make in this dark colour, having now settled on lighter coloured clays. My inspiration came partly from the fabulously ornate teapots produced in Staffordshire in the 1750-1780 period.

I regard teapots as the ceramic equivalent of the artist’s canvas, like a three dimensional canvas (that is valid in it’s own right and does not need to emulate a flat painted canvas). I currently make my teapots so that they include all the features of a working teapot (spout, strainer, lid, handle etc.), but they are not intended for brewing tea (they do function but they are lead glazed and therefore not food safe). By making my teapots apparently fully functional and not too far removed from what is easily recognisable as a teapot, I am treading on unsettled ground. If they were deliberately non-functional and exaggerated in form then they would be easier to accept as ceramic art. I enjoy exploring these uncomfortable boundaries that make catagorisation difficult.

Date made:
April 2022

Material:
Earthenware with lead glaze and raw oxides.

Height:
179 mm

Width:
248 mm

Net weight:
877 grams

Condition:
New.

Available from my facebook shop (see "shop" button at top of page) or from my website: https://www.paulbohannaceramics.co.uk/index.php/product/hexagonal-teapot-pb050/

11/04/2023

I've recently delved into the instagram rabbit hole... and after much frustration I now have an instagram profile. You can now follow me on instagram (thank you).
Photo is one of my large jugs before firing or glazing ("Armoured jug").

20/02/2023

Just got back from doing an interview about ceramics on BBC Radio Shropshire with Paul Shuttleworth. I was in "The Cool Seat" slot. If you fancy listening to it then the link is below. The interview starts about 2 Hours 7 Minutes 55 Seconds in on the "Listen Again" recording.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0f08k1c

17/02/2023

SOLD
"Rhino in a China dish".
This was the first oblong dish with Rococo rim that I made. It has underglaze prints including Albrecht Durer's rhino and three of my sketches for pots. The idea is a play on the popular "Bull in a china shop" saying, except that here I am referencing the near extinction of the Rhino. Albrecht Durer's famous etching of a rhinoceros was apparently done having never actually seen a rhino, I have used it because in many ways it symbolises the first rhino (our first modern contact with rhinos). The rhino is now facing extinction mainly due to China's insatiable appetite for rhino horn, and hence my title "Rhino in a China dish" actually references the end of the rhino. Therefore this dish might also be called "The First and Last Rhino".

The rococo rim was extremely technically challenging to achieve. The slightest difference in moisture level of the body and rim would lead to cracks. The rim alone took many attempts and several hours to make and apply to the body. The dish sits on four hemispherical hollow feet.

Date made:
22/2/2022

Material:
Earthenware with lead glaze and raw oxides.

Height:

Width:
248 mm x 210 mm

Net weight:
958 grams

Condition:
New.

Now available from my website: https://www.paulbohannaceramics.co.uk/index.php/product/rhino-in-a-china-dish/
Price: £135 - NOW SOLD