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In the spring
of 1987 his dream was realised when he started a full-time apprenticeship
with the potter, Sueishi Taisetsu
Sensei, in Inbe Town, Bizen City, Japan. This
lasted for two and a half years and covered all the aspects of the workshop.
Once his apprenticeship was over Eben helped Nakayama Tatsumaro
build a Suzu style anagama
kiln. Then upon returning to Bizen he earned a large part of his income team
firing kilns around the area and set up his own pottery studio. He remained
in the area until February 2001 where he made and fired his own work
independently, borrowing Sensei's and Komukai
Hitomi's kilns to fire it in. During his time in Japan, Eben took part in the
Bizen Pottery Festival in 1996 and 1999 and had solo exhibitions at Gallery Midorien in Okayama City and Gallery Koh
in Tokyo. Some of Eben's
pots made in the Bizen area and fired in an 8 metre long kiln built on a
mountain slope in Kumayama, Okayama Prefecture,
Japan were included in an exhibition entitled "Anagama" at the
Harlequin Gallery in 2002. A new batch of previously unseen work from that
same firing was exhibited during 2006, examples of which can be seen above.
Hopefully this is
a precursor to having some new work now that he is getting settled in Wales. |
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