Japanese Ceramic Artist Shinobu Hashimoto

Shinobu was born in Tokyo in 1969, and set up Tenstone studio and gallery in Hokkaido, Japan. His aim is to create ceramics that suit our modern lifestyle, keeping the design simple with only a few embellishments, staying true to the original texture and form. You can definitely see his hard work and eye for detail prevail in the final works, each is made on the wheel and then finished with a mixture of his own special techniques.

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Day 78

Hanging planter/luminary

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Mixed salmon and white color clay

Unfired

Day 77

Hanging planter/luminary

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White clay

Unfired

Day 76

Textured hanging planter/luminary

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This is fired

It is salmon and white color clay, mixed.

Day 75

Textured bowl

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Majolica

Unfired

UPDATE: fired (black oxide)

Day 74

Cracked white bowl

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White chamotte clay

Unfired

This bowl is similar to day 68, 

only smaller.

Day 73

Pierced lamp

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White chamotte (40 %) clay, 

Unfired

Day 72

Luminary

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Salmon color clay

Fired

Day 71

Pierced cupola luminary

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Yellow and salmon color clay

Unfired

So...

It’s been quite a while that I didn’t update my blog so it’s time to finally do it!
This pinch pot project is much harder than I expected, especially when you don’t have time to do all the things that you want in a day.
So far I tested my limits, my weak points, my patience and much more with this project. I’m not a professional ceramist so I don’t have a studio to work at. For now I work in a little corner of my boyfriends working/living room. And sometimes the whole process of making something is really a venture. But that exciting story is for another time.

I decided to stop with pinch pot project when I reach a number of 100 pots. My initial idea was to make 365 of them! I was really enthusiastic at the beginning! But now I know in which direction I want to go with my work so I think it’s not necessary to go all the way with this project. 

Hope you will stay with me and wait a little bit more for all this pinch pots that I made!