Ceramics and Pottery Arts and Resources

 

 

 Hideaki Miyamura –  Bell shaped green crystalline glaze bottle

 

 

The eternal quest for the perfect glaze

 

Creating a new glaze has been a lifelong passion for Hideaki Miyamura, his newest glaze being a ‘crystalescent’ yohen.

 

Described by Miyamura ..

‘During my 5 year apprenticeship in Japan, my assignment was to develop new glazes, mainly Tenmoku glazes, in a brown-black color with an iridescent quality. At that time, I completed over 10,000 test pieces. The fifth year of my apprenticeship, I discovered the iridescent glaze on a black background which was my original contribution to the art of Yohen Tenmoku.”

“Over the last few years, I have experimented to discover new glazes which combine crystallization with iridescence. I have researched crystal glaze techniques in the United States, Europe, Japan and China. In the long history of crystal glazes, I could find no iridescent crystal glaze. This fueled my ten-year long passion and intent to create an iridescent crystal glaze which has never been made anywhere, at anytime in history. Last year, the newest glaze came out of my kiln. It was the most complicated glaze formula and firing process that I have ever done. I call that newest glaze Yohen Crystal Glaze. Yohen means ‘stars glistening in a night sky’ ” ( see below )

Japanese-born American Hideaki Miyamura has his studio in New Hampshire, USA. Born in 1955 in Niigata, Japan, Miyamura went to study art history at Western Michigan University. After college, he returned to Japan to pursue his interest in ceramics as an apprentice with master potter Shurei Miura in Yamanashi for 5 years where he did some of his glaze research. He is now well known throughout Japan and the United States for his experimental and illustrious glazes, Miyamura’s surfaces possess a stunning and unique iridescent quality. Stemming from the artist’s interest in rare ancient Chinese tea bowl glazes, Miyamura seeks to create glazes that have a three-dimensional quality and convey purity and peacefulness.. He has said, “Harmony and unity are expressions of peace. I aim for my art to provide not only beauty, but also peacefulness. My quest has been not for the perfect form or perfect glaze, but for the mysterious effect that first drew me to this work: the contemplative tranquility evoked through line and light.” The sublime porcelain forms of Miyamura combine simplicity, balance and beauty juxtaposed with dynamic, detailed glazes of depth and refinement.

 

 

Teardrop shaped bottle with gold glaze – Hideaki Miyamura

15″ x 12″

 

 

Spherical  Bottle with Sea Foam Purple Glaze Porcelain – Hideaki Miyamura

 

 

 

 

Porcelain Vase, peach bloom glaze – Hideaki Miyamura

 

 

 

 

Lidded jar with gold glaze – Hideaki Miyamura

 

 

 Teardrop shaped vase with black & gold glaze – Hideaki Miyamura

23″ x 8″

 

 

Vase with green crystalline glaze – Hideaki Miyamura

14.5″ height

 

 

 

 Porcelain turquoise and yellow crystalline glazed vase  – Hideaki Miyamura

 

 

 

Hideaki Miyamura

 

 

 

 Hideaki Miyamura-covered jar

Pucker Gallery

 

 

 Covered jar with green crystalline glaze – Hideaki Miyamura

13.5″ x 11.5″

 

 

 

Two tenmoku peacock glaze vases – Hideaki Miyamura

 

 

 

Porcelain Lotus vase with gold glaze – Hideaki Miyamura

22 x 11.5 x 11″

Pucker Gallery

 

 

Porcelain Shinogite ribbed vase with golden glaze

 

 

 

 Starry Night glaze on a tear drop shaped bottle – Hideaki Miyamura

 

 

 

 Vase, gold glaze with “snow cap”, porcelain – Hideaki Miyamura

puckergallery.com

 

 

 

 Red iron crystalline glaze bottle – Hideaki Miyamura

 

 

 

 Vase, black and gold glazes – Hideaki Miyamura

 

 

 

Hideaki Miyamura-Bottle with Sea Foam Blue Glaze, small neck

puckergallery.com

 

 

 

Porcelain vase, blue hare’s fur glaze, gold glaze, and sea foam blue glaze

puckergallery.com

 

 

 Vase, iron crystalline and gold glazes

 

 

 

 Golden glaze vase

 

 

 

 Hideaki Miyamura  – peach bloom glaze vase

 

 

 

 

Porcelain Vase, reddish  iron crystalline glaze,

6.5-x-6.5-x-6

 

 

 

 

  Vase, silver eyes crystalline glaze, porcelain

13  x  7.75  x  7.75

puckergallery.com

 

 

 

 Vase, white crackle glaze

 

 

 Hideaki Miyamura

 

Miyamura studio here

 

 

 

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