Paul Soldner Floor Pots

He started out as a pre med student.

Paul soldner floor pots.

See more ideas about ceramics raku american ceramics. Paul soldner who had no aspirations to become a ceramic artist started out making conventional pieces. From fat necked bottles to figure stamped surfaces. While this process is most commonly understood as a low fired smoked ceramic ware soldner defined it as an evolving art form and an understanding of the.

At otis soldner explored creating monumental floor pots or sculptures which stood up to eight feet in height often with expressionistically painted areas on the forms. It was also at otis that he designed and ultimately began the manufacture of the soldner potters wheels and clay mixers that became soldner pottery equipment inc. Soldner hadn t planned to be an artist when he was young. At otis soldner explored creating monumental floor pots or sculptures which stood up to eight feet in height often with expressionistically painted areas on the forms.

Most famously he developed american raku. Sep 22 2019 explore dawn adams s board paul soldner followed by 388 people on pinterest. This exhibition will cover the entire scope of soldner s ceramic career from his early straightforward pieces to experimental floor pots of enormous size and scale. It was also at otis that he designed and ultimately began the manufacture of the soldner potters wheels and clay mixers that became soldner pottery equipment inc.

Paul soldner was born in summerfield illnois on april 24 1921.