Artist Research Project #1

Hayne Bayless is an artist in Ivoryton CT who works specifically making hand-built stoneware pottery. His career in ceramics started in high school where he found a potter's wheel and a kiln that wasn't being used. But before his professional career in ceramics, he attended college for 4 years and majored in journalism. He worked as a newspaper reporter and editor in New haven for 10 years before he rediscovered his love for ceramics and quit his journalism job in 1992.

He then ended up putting a couple of pieces of work at a churchyard craft show and ended up selling 3 of his pieces. Hayne never had any formal ceramics lessons other than lessons from a potter in Tokyo. He works exclusively with hand-building using slabs and extrusions. This was after he stopped wheel-throwing early in his career. Hayne won the top prizes at the Smithsonian craft show in Washington D.C and the Philadelphia Museum of Art craft show. Today he continues to teach workshops all over the country as well as places elsewhere. His motivation to be a ceramic artist was nothing more than the love he had for creating.

I chose Hayne's work because it stood out to me as something I had never really seen before. It is incredibly inventive and cool for being slab and extrusion. He also seems to gravitate towards the color blue for his work as most of what I've seen is blue. I thought that was interesting and wondered if it was a pattern of his or just something he liked, or if it had some sort of message behind it.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J3Yj0rf0egGCnK4Q58Omwf5mklFFGVNkA9MhSOY_nYY/edit#slide=id.p