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EBPC Potter Profiles

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Willow Bonsai Pots - South Africa

By Antony & Mavourneen Smith

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Antony and Mavourneen are a married couple from Pretoria, S. Africa with a great passion for bonsai and their ceramics. They make a variety of styles of pots under the name Willow Bonsai Pots and have identified and provided for a much-needed niche in the S. African bonsai market – that being bonsai pots which are affordable and of a great, hand-finished quality. Whilst also running Willow Bonsai Pots, Antony is a bonsai artist, having demonstrated at top level shows in Europe, and now regularly works with the sensational Raffael Torres in Spain.
 
After deciding to resolve this unsatisfied need for affordable, quality bonsai pots in S Africa, in early 2016 the couple embarked avidly on pottery classes. They have been producing increasingly proficient ceramics since and like all great artists, have learnt most of their trade through continued trial and error.
 
‘When we started the pottery, we decided to make as high quality products as possible. We have pushed hard from the start to always get better and develop new pots and new glazes. Our glazes are made uniquely for us in Johannesburg, South Africa and they are all reactive, which creates unique and interesting pots’. 
 
After initially creating Earthenware pots, Willow Bonsai pots are now made from a Stoneware clay and are high fired to 1220 degrees for a high degree of frost resistance and a quality product. ‘Our pottery starts off with moulds, thereafter each is levelled and finished by hand. Mavourneen does all the detail work on the pots and creates the finesse to our pots. Thereafter bisque firing and glaze firings finish off the process. Our studio and kiln are at our home in Pretoria, South Africa.' 



Contact:           Willow Bonsai Pots / EBPC 

E-mail:             willowbonsaishop@gmail.com
 
Website:          http://www.willowbonsaishop.com
 
Commissions can be requested through us here.

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  • Home
    • About the EBPC >
      • MEET THE TEAM
      • EBPC in the Media
      • Year one Newsletters
    • Contact
    • Blog
    • Bonsai Events >
      • Bonsai Exhibition Calendar
      • EBPC Trading at ..
      • EBPC SPONSORED EVENTS
  • EBPC RESOURCES
    • ARTIST PROFILES >
      • TABLE MAKERS >
        • Doug Mudd Bonsai Tables
        • D. R. Bonsai Tables
        • Imbo Bonsai Tables
      • 'Honorary' EBPC Members >
        • Willow Bonsai - S. Africa
        • Shuhu - Japan
        • Koho - Japan
        • Roy Minarai - U.S.A.
      • POTTERS - Czech >
        • Tom Benda
        • ​Miroslav Znamenáček
      • POTTERS - Denmark >
        • E.B.L. Pots
      • Potters - England >
        • Bryan Albright
        • China Mist
        • Dragonfly Bonsai Pots
        • Erin Bonsai Pots
        • Miroslav Kolar
        • P.A.S. Pottery
        • Stone Monkey Ceramics
        • Suteki
        • Walsall Studio Ceramics
      • Potters - France >
        • Amdouni Bonsai Pots
        • Bruno Auvinet
        • Lotus Bonsai Studio
        • Pierre Rousseau
        • Sabine Besnard
        • Terre en Vadrouille
      • Potters - Germany >
        • M.B.Bonsaischalen
        • Englert Keramik
        • Roman Husmann Bonsai Pots
      • POTTERS - Italy
      • POTTERS - Ireland >
        • Kingdom Bonsai Pots
      • POTTERS - Scotland >
        • Ian Baillie
      • POTTERS - Spain >
        • M J G Ceramica
        • Guerao
      • POTTERS - Sweden >
        • Carina Jern
        • Gramming Bonsai Pots
        • Holvila Bonsai Pots
      • POTTERS - Slovakia >
        • Atelier Bonsai Element
      • POTTERS - Slovenia >
        • Me & Raimondi
        • Marjian Mirt
      • POTTERS- Switzerland >
        • Jürg Stäheli
      • POTTERS- Turkey >
        • ZEY CERAMICS
      • POTTERS - Wales >
        • Paul Rogers Ceramics
      • Collaborations >
        • The Triskele Group
    • EBPD Stamp database
    • EBPC Shop >
      • Purchase & Returns Policy
      • Privacy Policy
    • EBPC COMMISSIONS
    • EBPV Videos
    • OTHER SERVICES >
      • Pot Talks
      • EBPC Pot Displays
      • EBPC'S POT BUYING SERVICE
      • SERVICES FOR EXHIBITIONS
  • EBPC FOR ARTISTS
    • EBPC MEMBER'S PAGE
    • INFO FOR ARTISTS >
      • ABOUT THE EBPC