Tony Natsoulas in Japan

Hiroko Corroko's new site

2009-10-10T06:58:00.000-07:00

Please see Hiroko's new site at

http://tokanan.web.fc2.com/

Hiroko's Latest pictures.

2009-04-22T06:54:00.000-07:00

Three New Pictures From Hiroko!

2008-06-27T06:15:00.001-07:00

This is a sculpture I finished after coming back from Japan

2007-12-12T00:40:00.000-08:00

This sculpture is named "Tanuki Soup" You can see a slide show of it on the front page of my website at http://www.tonynatsoulas.com

Hiroko Sakao's work. (She was a studio artist when I was there)

2007-05-28T06:48:00.001-07:00

Figurative show at the Shizuoka art gallery

2007-04-18T06:04:00.000-07:00

Tanuki Exhibition at the Shigaraki Museum

2007-03-16T06:23:00.000-07:00

Review from the Tanuki exhibition I am in in Japan.

2007-02-28T06:54:00.000-08:00

Hiroko Sakao's Studio and work. (She was a studio artist when I was there)

2007-02-14T08:07:00.000-08:00

Exhibition at Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo, Japan

2006-11-29T07:07:00.000-08:00

Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo, Japan
"Human Form in Clay" has traveled from Shigaraki to the Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo, which is about 600 kilometers south-west of Tokyo. Tokyo venue was not realized, but it will come to Shizuoka, a half way to Tokyo.

The exhibition shows variety of works of 26 artists from 11 different countries including Robert Arneson, Peter VandenBerge, Tony Natsoulas, Viola Frey, Paul Day, Carmen Dionyse, Gertraud Mohwald, Shin Fujihira.

The museum building which opened last fall is somewhat like a Japanese castle, but the inside is very modern.

Figurative show in Hyogo.

2006-11-05T15:41:00.000-08:00

Fall pictures of Shigaraki from Takada San.

2006-10-24T08:57:00.001-07:00

Miss Ueno's artwork. She is an artist at Shigaraki right now.

2006-10-04T07:26:00.000-07:00

Pictures taken by Takada San.

Shari and David Hopper's pictures of Shigaraki

2006-10-03T06:40:00.000-07:00

These are Eddie's first works.

2006-08-30T09:43:00.000-07:00

These are Eddie's first works inspired by visiting me in
Japan for a week last spring.

Hiroko Sakao was another visiting artist art Shigaraki.

2006-08-21T11:31:00.000-07:00

These are her exhibition's in Nagoya.

Amy's blog.

2006-08-18T06:33:00.000-07:00

This is a link to
Amy Gelber's Blog who
is an artist in Shigaraki right now.
http://ajoge.blogspot.com/

Chiharu's Photos.

2006-08-17T07:01:00.000-07:00

Chiharu was one of the artists at Shigaraki when I was there. This is the
note that went with the pictures:


I went to Niigata(north of Tokyo) for 6 days.
They have a big art event once 3 years.(triennial)
for one and half month. There are 337 works( not
only ceramic but also many kinds of art and
architecture ) in 6 area.(1 city and 5 town)

Study of Tanuki face for large ceamic sculpture.

2006-07-11T10:57:00.000-07:00

3 feet x 3 feet
Oil stick on paper

new maquette for folk tale series. Tanuki and woman.

2006-07-10T16:56:00.000-07:00

Takada San's pictures of the New Show at the Muesum

2006-07-04T10:49:00.000-07:00

Takada san's pictures of octopus jars

2006-07-01T06:39:00.000-07:00

First sculpture done since I have been back from Japan.

2006-06-27T09:07:00.000-07:00

This sculpture was inspired by this wood block print of Yoshitoshi's. 1839 - 1892 The sculpture is a study for a large sculpture I am doing about some folktails of Tanukis.

post trip to Japan, by Takada San

2006-06-16T07:25:00.000-07:00

Artist who took over the studio I was working in, Japan

2006-05-30T06:42:00.000-07:00

Eddie's Show.

2006-05-04T08:35:00.000-07:00

2006-05-03T07:20:00.000-07:00

The Ceramic park and tearoom show.

2006-05-03T07:14:00.000-07:00

Public sculpture finally finished at Tahoe Tallac Park in Sacramento

2006-05-02T06:55:00.000-07:00

Takada San and Mrs. Takada at two festivals.

2006-05-01T18:12:00.000-07:00

Seats that I carved and glazed for the park.

2006-04-30T11:48:00.000-07:00

More Pictures from Takada San of the Ceramic Park

2006-04-30T11:45:00.000-07:00

More from Takada! These are the grounds at SCCP

2006-04-29T07:03:00.000-07:00

Bottle tree in Petaluma, CA

2006-04-25T06:38:00.000-07:00

Pictures taken by Vise Director Takada San

2006-04-22T05:41:00.000-07:00

Tanukis

2006-04-21T12:54:00.000-07:00

Thank you for sharing my adventure with me!

2006-04-17T14:18:00.000-07:00

Well, this is the end of my adventure. It has definitely been an eye opener! I have never really traveled outside of the USA before. This part of Japan is a very beautiful part of Japan. I hope I can see more of the whole country some day soon. I do want to get home but I have not done everything and seen everything I wanted to yet. I leave in two hours. I will keep this blog going if people are interested in my life at home. Thanks again. Love, Tony

Tony's demo

2006-04-16T07:39:00.000-07:00

Finished pieces.

2006-04-15T18:48:00.000-07:00

Fire festival

2006-04-14T15:53:00.000-07:00

This is the fire festival we went to last night. I don't know anything about it, but will find out. We arrived to fine thirty 30 foot rice straw sake bottles. We first went to the temple and saw a priest chanting and then said a payer. There were drums everywhere beating, then they lit the tops of small sake rice bottles and then drunk teenage boys push them over and drag them up to the temple on fire. Then the biggest drum gets carried to the temple, but the 20 men that are carrying it wave back and forth. Then the boys drag the piece back still on fire and put them up right followed by the drum. Then they start lighting the big ones and when they are all on fire the drunk boys start beating the flaming bottles with bamboo poles. It was strange but very beautiful.

I am leaving on tues the 18th to go back to the states. I will try to put more up before I leave. Thanks for looking at my blog. T

Being on Kyoto T.V. and Eddie getting on the plane

2006-04-13T15:27:00.000-07:00

2006-04-12T04:46:00.000-07:00

1. Train moving seats to go the other direction.

2. Golden Temple

3. Golden Temple

4. Shrine

5. Shrine

Eddie and Hiroko

2006-04-11T02:04:00.000-07:00

2006-04-10T17:37:00.000-07:00

more nara

2006-04-10T17:11:00.000-07:00

nara temple

2006-04-10T14:51:00.000-07:00

Temple with the largest Baddah inside.

Eddie putting smoke on himself for good luck.

more nara

2006-04-10T03:56:00.001-07:00

more nara

2006-04-09T17:22:00.000-07:00

trip to Nara

2006-04-09T17:11:00.000-07:00

Castle and Shrine

2006-04-06T16:27:00.000-07:00

Tile Museum

2006-04-06T16:02:00.000-07:00

1. The back of the tile museum

2. On the way to the Tile Musuem

3. Outside the tile museum

4. the front of the tile museum

5. In side the tile museum

glazing, loading kiln and tanuki.

2006-04-04T04:24:00.000-07:00

A walk around Shigaraki city.

2006-04-03T02:38:00.000-07:00

Their main industry is Tanuki making here.

work, resturant and Tanuki.

2006-04-02T16:14:00.000-07:00

1. Back at the studio. I am working on some tanukis. Please see explanation on this page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanuki

2. and 3. resturant. Private room with waitress.

4. and 5. Tanuki gift shop

Kyoto station preformance and first cherry tree.

2006-04-01T15:28:00.000-08:00

Going to the Antique show.

2006-04-01T15:16:00.000-08:00

1. Kyoto station
2. On the way to the Antique show.
3. At the show.
4. Sign in the front of the show.
5. At the show.

The antique show was nice, but 30 percent was from Europe. I did get to see some great Netsuke
http://www.netsuke.com

Antique store.

2006-03-30T16:50:00.000-08:00

loading the kiln

2006-03-30T16:41:00.000-08:00

1. In the studio
2. In the kiln
3. In the kiln
4. The Staff.

It is snowing here now.

2006-03-28T23:06:00.000-08:00

Miho Museum. I M Pei designed this.

2006-03-27T22:28:00.000-08:00

180 Year old farm house presevered

2006-03-27T22:16:00.000-08:00

Later that night saw tombs

2006-03-27T21:30:00.000-08:00

It was a fun filled day looking at cemitarties and tombs.

This is a grave yard where Ka ji san's father and grandfather and great grandfather is resting.

Temple

2006-03-27T20:49:00.000-08:00

1. We went to a temple in Kyoto and these are the grounds. We were able to see a Buddhist ceremony. We went in and kneeled on the floor. The prest was chanting and all of the people had wooded bells in front of them and were striking them at the same time.

2. grounds

3. grounds

4. Ceramic roofs on the temple.

5 and six. grave yard.

7. grounds

8. gas station

More of the park and the show.

2006-03-25T16:42:00.000-08:00

1. This is a real tanuki. The sculptures don't look anything like them.

2. The show again. This is the first piece you see.

3. The cleaning lady loves my work. She can not speak a word of english, but continues to talk to me in Japanese as fast as she can.

4 and 5. Going up to the show and looking back at the grounds.

Don't forget, you can click on these pictures to see larger ones.

2006-03-24T15:57:00.000-08:00

Store, work and hot springs.

2006-03-24T15:27:00.000-08:00

1. Shigaraki Hot Springs. I went to the Hot springs at the golf course near by. The hot springs pools look over a great big lake that have ducks and beautiful trimed trees and large rocks. They have 8 different pools and two saunans (sp?) and they have showers that are really high that message you. Normally in Japan you always bow to a person when you see them. But in this stiuation nobody even looked at each other. It was great!! By the way, there is a boy side and a girl side.

2. the golf course grounds.

3. The work progresses

4. the work progresses

5. Buying dinner. Uhg..!!!!!

Trip to Museum of Modern art, shiga and to the clay store.

2006-03-22T20:51:00.000-08:00

Hi,

Yesterday we went to a Muesum of Mondern art in shiga, which is 1/2 hour from us.

1. Some of the out door gardens infront of the Museum.

2. Some of the artists that are working at the Shigaraki ceramic park in Front of the Modern Muesum.

3. Toilet in the Museum.

4. this is everywhere here. They are Tanuki. They good luck figures made of clay. They come in all sorts of shapes and size. These are on poles.

5. The clay store. they have 100's of clay bodies and colors.

Peter's Demo and work progress.

2006-03-21T14:22:00.000-08:00

1. Peter showing his slides. You can the interperter on the left. Also you can see the Curator falling a sleep on the far left. The blond woman is from Finland not a blond Japanses person.

2. Peter's Demo.

3. The woman in this picture is a woman I met on the plane to Japan. She makes "art" eggs. Like Faberge . She and her husband came from three hours away to see me and the show. They also saw Peter's slide show.

Shigaraki Walk

2006-03-20T15:04:00.000-08:00

1.This is a monitor in an artist's van. It shows what is behind the car.
2. front of a ceramic gift shop.
3. Another gift shop
4. In side gift shop.

progress of artwork.

2006-03-19T15:07:00.000-08:00

UP TO THE MUSUEM

2006-03-18T17:48:00.001-08:00

more from the show

2006-03-18T17:33:00.000-08:00

Exhibition

2006-03-18T17:20:00.000-08:00

This the show that I am here at the Shgiaraki musuem. Yesterday was the openning reseption. It was great, a lot of people came to see the show.

1. English artist Paul Day. Check out http://www.pauldaysculpture.com

2. Part of the show from Europe.

3. Another Paul Day sculpture.

4 and 5. Another arneson.

tile company

2006-03-18T15:39:00.000-08:00

This is a tile company we visited near the musuem. I have never seen such amazing technology before. The produce huge tiles with high qaulity glazed photographs on them.

1. all ceramic tile.
2. Peter and Paul in front of a huge tile of a middle eastern.
3 and 4. Robert Rauschenberg's

5. One of the kilns. It is no more then a foot tall and 4 feet wide.

Tanuki store

2006-03-18T15:23:00.000-08:00

This is a Tanuki Store. A Tanuki is a Racoon/dog like animal that is native to Japan. These sculptures do not look anything like the real animal. They are good luck symbols. This store has 1000's of them. The featured features are they testicals. The making of these sculptures is only 50 years old. I see it kind of like a ratfink from big daddy ross.

Trip to Kyoto

2006-03-17T15:09:00.000-08:00

My place

2006-03-16T01:36:00.000-08:00

Hi, this is my Luxury sweet.

1. Bedroom
2. Bathroom
3. Living room
4. Dinning room
5. Kitchen

2006-03-15T03:21:00.001-08:00

Hi All,

Here is some pictures from the first day. Tony

1. This is a sign with my piece on it outside the museum.

2.This is where I am working.

3.This is the front gate.

4. My and Peter Vandenberges space

5. Sign out side.

Japan

2006-03-14T19:18:00.000-08:00

Well, I made it to Japan. I left at 9:37 on monday morning and got here at 9:30 tues. night. I watched 4 movies on the plane. This part of Japan in very much in the country. I will post some pictures here tonight. Tony

Welcome to my Blog

2006-01-24T08:41:00.000-08:00

Hi,

Tony Natsoulas here. I will be putting up what is new in my world on this blog. Please also see my site at http://www.tonynatsoulas.com

Thanks, Tony

Tony Natsoulas in Japan

Hiroko Corroko's new site

Hiroko's Latest pictures.

Three New Pictures From Hiroko!

This is a sculpture I finished after coming back from Japan

Hiroko Sakao's work. (She was a studio artist when I was there)

Figurative show at the Shizuoka art gallery

Tanuki Exhibition at the Shigaraki Museum

Review from the Tanuki exhibition I am in in Japan.

Hiroko Sakao's Studio and work. (She was a studio artist when I was there)

Exhibition at Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo, Japan

Figurative show in Hyogo.

Fall pictures of Shigaraki from Takada San.

Miss Ueno's artwork. She is an artist at Shigaraki right now.

Shari and David Hopper's pictures of Shigaraki

These are Eddie's first works.

Hiroko Sakao was another visiting artist art Shigaraki.

Amy's blog.

Chiharu's Photos.

Study of Tanuki face for large ceamic sculpture.

new maquette for folk tale series. Tanuki and woman.

Takada San's pictures of the New Show at the Muesum

Takada san's pictures of octopus jars

First sculpture done since I have been back from Japan.

More Takada posts

More post Japan pictures from Takada San.

post trip to Japan, by Takada San

Artist who took over the studio I was working in, Japan

Eddie's Show.

The Ceramic park and tearoom show.

Public sculpture finally finished at Tahoe Tallac Park in Sacramento

Takada San and Mrs. Takada at two festivals.

Seats that I carved and glazed for the park.

More Pictures from Takada San of the Ceramic Park

More from Takada! These are the grounds at SCCP

Bottle tree in Petaluma, CA

Pictures taken by Vise Director Takada San

Tanukis

Thank you for sharing my adventure with me!

Tony's demo

Finished pieces.

Fire festival

Being on Kyoto T.V. and Eddie getting on the plane

Eddie and Hiroko

more nara

nara temple

more nara

more nara

trip to Nara

Castle and Shrine

Tile Museum

glazing, loading kiln and tanuki.

A walk around Shigaraki city.

work, resturant and Tanuki.

Kyoto station preformance and first cherry tree.

Going to the Antique show.

Antique store.

loading the kiln

It is snowing here now.

Miho Museum. I M Pei designed this.

180 Year old farm house presevered

Later that night saw tombs

Temple

More of the park and the show.

Don't forget, you can click on these pictures to see larger ones.

Store, work and hot springs.

Trip to Museum of Modern art, shiga and to the clay store.

Peter's Demo and work progress.

Shigaraki Walk

progress of artwork.

UP TO THE MUSUEM

more from the show

Exhibition

tile company

Tanuki store

Trip to Kyoto

My place

Japan

Welcome to my Blog