My name is Lynn, Chou Kei Rin is not my real name. It is the Japanese name found for me by a Japanese student of ours.
I'm a third generation family trained potter in Singapore and I work in my family's pottery studio. Although I have been exposed to clay/pottery since I was a baby, I've only officially started going into this line in end 2010. In Oct 2011, I held my first exhibition together with 15 other hobby potters.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Full video on making big bowl. Our method for lifting is different from the method in western countries. It is called the cross-hand lifting, and is designed specially for petite-size Asians who don’t have the strength like the average westerners to do large pots.
My uncle was invited to Whampoa Community Centre (Singapore) for a 1 hour pottery demonstration. This video is a quick demonstration by him on throwing a teapot cover and spout.
If you’re new to pottery, I’m telling ya he’s doing it at GODSPEED.
If you’re interested in him, you can find his details here: http://smkpottery.com/potters/sookhim.html
(Unfortunately my profile is not included in the site)
Mom dug this out (she used it for her coins). Done in 1993 on the wheel. I was 4 years old turning 5.
Things to be done (9 May 2012)
1) Start an Etsy shop, or a portfolio site, or both.
2) Start reading up on glazes, firing, clay, pottery in general.
3) Start a “A-teapot-a-day” project, or a “5-cups-a-day” project. Whichever.
Mom wants to publish a 400 teapot book. 200 hers, 200 mine. Quite a target. We’ll see when I can hit that target. Hee hee.
For a friend’s 24th birthday.
The color wasn’t what I’d expected and for a moment I was reluctant to keep it, but I grew to like it a lot. My friend liked it too, luckily. And I might just want to try the same again.
Palm size gourd teapot, done on the wheel… gonna attempt an even smaller one.
Post 500 teapot submission
2 weeks ago, I’ve mailed out the necessary things required for the 500 teapot submission by Lark Crafts. Till today, there are no news from them. Should I be worried?
I wonder how it works…
That aside, I’ve got a 5cm teapot that I sent for firing yesterday. I wonder how it’ll turn out. Fingers crossed!
Mom’s hands, throwing something on the wheel… old photo I dug out from my computer…
I was told that it looked like Aladdin. I named it Fiery, for it’s color.
空虚。缘
说实在，最近心情有点低落。
或许有点空虚？
明明在学习着，但还是觉得少了些什么。
难道是生活太悠哉？
所以我尽量让自己觉得忙碌；
看戏，看书，画画，上网。
可能是觉得总找不着知心的人吧。
心里空空的。
想找个心灵的依靠。
朋友说，不得人指引不可擅自乱来。
如擅自乱来，可能会走火入魔。
因此，我又迷惑了。
那是我无缘吗？
还是因为有缘，所以得到劝止；
买的书籍至此从未阅读，是以免走火入魔，好等待指引之人？
我该随缘等待吧？
不过心灵的空虚还是希望有得依靠。。。
