Chris Keenan makes amongst the most beautiful ceramics I know. It’s a combination of shapes and glazes that attracts me. All the work is thrown porcelain from Limoges, glazed using combinations of tenmoku (the dark, almost black glaze) and a deep celadon (the pale green-gray glaze), and then reduction-fired in a gas kiln to 1280° C.

Keenan started his professional life as an actor before traingin to be a potter as apprentice to Edmund de Waal.

Keenan says about his work: “A particular love of the bowl continues to offer formal and technical challenges - I feel I could make them until the cows come home and still experience near equal degrees of satisfaction and frustration.” I really like this idea of exploring and researching a certain shape or function over and over again.

Chris Keenan will be exhibiting at the new London craft fair Origin in October.

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