Loren Lukens Teapot
Exquisite porcelain teapot by master studio potter Loren Lukens. For 24 years, Lukens and his musician wife Beth Kirchhoff operated a studio and artistic salon at Brace Point Pottery in West Seattle, WA (they are now based in Merced, CA).
Loren Lukens, in his own words:
"My love affair with clay began in the early 1970’s as an undergraduate art student at a small Midwest liberal arts college. Counterculture influences and my farm-boy background combined, to make a career in pottery an appealing synthesis of practicality, art, and craft husbandry...
"The beginnings of pottery go hand in hand with the beginnings of humankind. Of contemporary crafts, only basket making is as fundamental. The shapes of pottery are the shapes of the human body, and are named such: lip, foot, and shoulder. They are shapes we know very well on a level beneath our consciousness."
Exquisite porcelain teapot by master studio potter Loren Lukens. For 24 years, Lukens and his musician wife Beth Kirchhoff operated a studio and artistic salon at Brace Point Pottery in West Seattle, WA (they are now based in Merced, CA).
Loren Lukens, in his own words:
"My love affair with clay began in the early 1970’s as an undergraduate art student at a small Midwest liberal arts college. Counterculture influences and my farm-boy background combined, to make a career in pottery an appealing synthesis of practicality, art, and craft husbandry...
"The beginnings of pottery go hand in hand with the beginnings of humankind. Of contemporary crafts, only basket making is as fundamental. The shapes of pottery are the shapes of the human body, and are named such: lip, foot, and shoulder. They are shapes we know very well on a level beneath our consciousness."
Exquisite porcelain teapot by master studio potter Loren Lukens. For 24 years, Lukens and his musician wife Beth Kirchhoff operated a studio and artistic salon at Brace Point Pottery in West Seattle, WA (they are now based in Merced, CA).
Loren Lukens, in his own words:
"My love affair with clay began in the early 1970’s as an undergraduate art student at a small Midwest liberal arts college. Counterculture influences and my farm-boy background combined, to make a career in pottery an appealing synthesis of practicality, art, and craft husbandry...
"The beginnings of pottery go hand in hand with the beginnings of humankind. Of contemporary crafts, only basket making is as fundamental. The shapes of pottery are the shapes of the human body, and are named such: lip, foot, and shoulder. They are shapes we know very well on a level beneath our consciousness."