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Who is Lisette Wentholt?
Lisette Wentholt, potter and teacher, lives and works in the Deua River Valley in the midst of the Deua National Park on the South Coast of NSW Australia (actually, it's the Far South Coast NSW).
The Deua River Valley is a particularly beautiful natural area, with private property butting-up onto national park and bordering on wilderness.
Lisette's Deua River home of 26 years has electric power only from a generator, supplemented by solar; she fires her pottery in a large wood-fired kiln (Black Wattle, which regenerates every seven years, is used to fire the kiln).
Lisette has been potting since 1964. Her teaching experience includes TAFE, Secondary Schools, Adult Education, aged, disabled and classes for young children.
Lisette's work is represented
in private and public collections throughout Australia, in private
collections overseas and in the Arts Council National Slide Library.
She has exhibited widely eg. 2000 Wood-fired Ceramic
Water Features, Buleen Art and Garden, Melbourne; and, her work has been
shown in various publications and she has a column 'Arts Alive' published
weekly in the Bay Post/Moruya Examiner and Narooma News, and also featured
on this site.
Visits welcome at
2681 Deua River
Via Moruya NSW 2537
Phone: 02 4478 8361
The Deua River Clay
deposited on bedrock 360 million years old is a unique blend of mineral and carbonaceous matter. Mined with a local backhoe it is trucked 3 kms to the Pottery.
The Potter dreams of the pots to be made - their shape - their purpose.
Fired with Black Wattle wood, or gas to 1160° C, the soft black clay transforms in the kiln to warm orange and rich brown clay tones - the decoration inspired by Deua Valley scenes of mountains, plants, flowers, animals, birds and the sparking Deua River itself.
The clay used by the Deua River Pottery is unique. It is crushed, mixed with water to a thick creamy consistency and sieved into drying beds by the potter. When dry enough it is stored in airtight containers until required. The main production techniques are: throwing, on the wheel, hand building and slip casting. The finished pieces are fired in either the gas or wood kiln to receive the effects of fire, flame and ash...
No other potter offers this unique 'Eco-Pottery' —
hand made pieces as individual as the potter herself.
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