Castroville Pottery Artists
At Castroville Pottery, we are pleased to feature the work of several talented ceramic artists in our Gallery. While all of our artists are experts in ceramic design and production, each is highly-regarded for his own unique talents and contributions to the arts.
Tim Kelley
Tim Kelley’s vision is to create functional and artistic pottery exclusively in Castroville, to develop throwing classes and advanced pottery techniques, and to make ceramics available to Castroville and South Texas potters who would like to display and sell their work.
John Nelson
John Nelson has always enjoyed the feel of earth in his hands. Currently, John is an adjunct instructor in Ceramics at the Southwest School of Art & Craft in San Antonio. He enjoys the process of creating functional pieces that make an artistic statement with a balanced feeling to the user.
Charles Haile
Charles Haile is an architect by training, but a potter by passion. His work tends toward simple geometries and crisp volumes with graphic surface embellishment that reflects his architectural roots. He has been working in clay for almost ten years, and looks forward to many more.
Taaffe Caton
Taaffe's work consists of hand-built and wheel thrown decorative and functional forms. Her passion is firing work using a combination of techniques to achieve exciting contrasts and visual pictures; pit, raku, saggar, low & high kiln methods. Originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, she has lived in San Antonio for ten years.
Stewart Martin
Stewart Martin is a visual artist working primarily in clay and glass. He works as a formalist using the elements of design – line, shape, form, mark, textures, color and value – to tell stories that speak to the abstract depth and quality of the natural earthly processes of weathering, erosion, heat and fire over the effects of time. Stewart’s forms are simple in shape, volume and line to allow emphasis of the clay’s surface; early influence on his work comes from the California abstract expressionist clay movement.
Brad Lum
Brad Lum has been a potter since 1989. He has taught pottery-making in Charleston, South Carolina and in San Antonio at the Southwest School of Art & Craft. His work is influenced by Asian and traditional American ceramics.
Jonathan Fish
Jonathan Fish is a newcomer to Castroville after studying ceramics in Southern California. Castroville Pottery is pleased to debut Jonathan’s work in our Gallery. Jonathan’s expertise includes the design and production of elegant ceramics, specifically high-end functional gifts. In early 2009, Jonathan will begin teaching ceramics classes to aspiring artists at the Castroville Pottery Studio.
Dale Neese
Dale Neese is a full time ceramicist with a pottery studio in Helotes Texas. He graduated with a degree in ceramics from Middle Tennessee State University in 1973 and has over 35 years of clay experience. Dale is a past president of the San Antonio Potters Guild. His devoted interest in ceramics has taken him to Italy and twice to The People's Republic of China to attend universities and workshops taught by many prestigious ceramic teachers and clay artists. Dale's personal clay work as earned many awards and recognition from various competitions, art fairs around the United States. Dale's most recent merit award was given by Juror Dick Hay for his two vessels at the Dallas Regional Ceramic Competition earlier in 2009. He is an adjunct teaching faculty member of the Southwest School of Art and Craft.