Paul Nash
Ceramic and Art Professor, Studio Ceramic Artist
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ARTIST STATEMENT
I use several different themes in my ceramic forms. The forms are either functional - bowls, vases and bottles, or ceramic sculpture - platters, fertility forms and bullet forms. My main interest is the Stoneware High Fire Reduction process. I like the look and feel of the stoneware clay and the glazes that evolved out of China.
I enjoy all aspects of ceramics - preparing the clay, making the clay forms, and firing the kilns. I fire my pieces in the Wood Burning Firing, the Soda Firing, or the Reduction Firing kiln.
I am trying to achieve a relationship and balance of space and form.
There is also the matching of the glazes to the ceramic form. This process actually starts as soon as I make the clay form in the plastic greenware stage. The relationship of all these components needs to come together to create art.
As an Art Educator in Ceramics, my main emphasis is to work in clay along with my students. This gives the students a greater awareness of the skills, techniques, and the amount of time needed to create art.
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Paul Nash Profession
1971 to present - Working as a studio artist in functional and sculptural ceramic forms. |
EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS
2021 | Hawaii Craftsmen Annual Statewide Exhibition 2021 Juror: Angelik Vizcarrondo Laboy, Los Angeles and New York Curator for the Arts Administrator of Contemporary Art and Craft. Downtown Art Center Exhibition Hall, Honolulu Hawaii. Accepted into the Exhibition: 1. Stoneware Vase 12.5”X8.5”X8.5” Titled: It’s A Nice Pot / 2. Pit Fired Abstract Vase 6”X4”X4” Titled: It Was A Lucky Day / 3. Stoneware Sculpture Hand Built 23”X7”X7” Titled: I’m Hungry For You / 4. Stoneware Sculpture Wheel Thrown 30.5”X7”X7” Titled: Undulating To The Heaves / 5. Stoneware Abstract Vase, Hand Built and Wheel Thrown with Overlapping Glazes 20”X14”X14” Titled: Up Up And Away. Out of the Elements: Invited Artist, A Celebration of Raku Hoolaulea and Plien Air Paintings Sponsored by the Hawaii Craftsmen Organization. Downtown Art Center Exhibition Hall, Honolulu Hawaii. Three Raku Vases and Two Raku Bottles. Matchbox Plus XVII Cedar Street Galleries, Invited Artist, Honolulu, Hawaii. Six Stoneware Drinking Cups and Six Stoneware Bowls. Showcase Mauka, Five Sculptural Forms Invited Guest Artist, University of Hawaii Manoa, Ceramic Department. Wheel Thrown and Hand Build. Stoneware Fired. |
2020 | Matchbox Plus Miniature Art Show Cedar Street Galleries, Honolulu, Hawaii – Invited Artist. . Stoneware Drinking Cups. |
2018 | Fifty First Annual Statewide Juried Exhibition Hawaii Craftsmen, Honolulu Museum Art School Gallery. Accepted, Stoneware Sculpture, handbuild, 36” X 8”X8” Titled: The Rebirth Of The Earth #1 Mathchbox Plus XIV Cedar Street Galleries, Honolulu, Hawaii – Invited Artist, Stoneware Bottle, Chun Glazes |
2017 | Matchbox Plus XIII Cedar Street Galleries, Honolulu, Hawaii, - Invited Artist, 3 Stoneware Bottles |
2016 | Raku Ho’olaulea 2016, 40th Anniversary Invited guest artist (Raku Legends).One raku ocean sculpture in exhibition, title,(She From The Sea). Handbuild Form, Raku Fired Matchbox Plus X11 Cedar Street Galleries, Honolulu, Hawaii – . Invisted Artist. 3 Stoneware Bottles |
2014 | 2014 WCC Art Faculty Exhibition Iolani Gallery, Windward Community College. Exhibited 20 ceramic pieces. Thirteen Ceramic Artists from Hawaii Matchbox Plus IX Cedar Street Galleries, Honolulu, Hawaii – . Invited Artist. Iron Blue Bottle, Stoneware |
2013 | Matchbox Plus VIII Cedar Street Galleries, Honolulu, Hawaii. – . Invited Artist. One Porcelain Bottle, Chun Glaze. |
2012
| Hawaii Craftsmen 45th Annual Statewide Juried Exhibition |
2011 | Matchbox Plus VII Cedar Street Galleries, Honolulu, Hawaii. – . Invited Artist. One Porcelain Bottle, Chun Glaze. Mixed Media Miniature Show Koa Art Gallery – . Invited Artist. Kapiolani Community College, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii. One Porcelain Bottle, Chun Glaze. |
2010 | Hawaii Craftsmen Statewide Juried Annual Exhibition 2010 Honolulu Academy of the Arts, Academy Arts Center, Honolulu, Hawaii. One Stoneware Platter with oxide brush landscape design. Raku Ho’olaule’a 2010 Exhibition Hawaii Craftsmen Association. Honolulu Academy of the Arts, Academy Art Center, Honolulu, Hawaii. Juried Exhibition. Raku Vase Faculty Exhibition Windward Community College, University of Hawaii, Iolani Gallery. Exhibited Ten Stoneware Sculptural Forms, Vases, and a Tea Pot. Choice Art 2 Invited Artist, The Pegge Hopper Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii. Group Exhibition, . Three Stoneware Bottles Matchbox Plus VI Cedar Street Galleries, Honolulu, Hawaii. – . Invited Artist. One Stoneware Wood Fired Altered Bowl. One Raku Bottle. Mixed Media Miniature Show Koa Art Gallery – . Invited Artist. Two Stoneware Vases. Kapiolani Community College, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii. |
2009 | Matchbox Plus V Cedar Street Galleries, Honolulu, Hawaii. . Invited Artist. One Stoneware Cover Jar. One Raku Bottle. Mixed Media Miniature Show Koa Art Gallery – . Invited Artist. Two Stoneware Vases. Kapiolani Community College, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii. |
2007 | 2007 Hawaii Craftsmen Statewide Juried Annual Exhibition Honolulu Academy of the Arts, Academy Arts Center, Honolulu, Hawaii. Three Stoneware Bottles, One Stoneware Vase. Showcase 2007 Honolulu Academy of the Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii. Invited artist. Two Stoneware vases, Slat fired with Chun Glazes. 14”x12”X12”. Noreen Naughton / Paul Nash : Bones to Earth Iolani Gallery, Windward Community College, University of Hawaii. 25 stoneware ceramic forms. Sculpture and Pottery Bottles and Bowls. |
2006 | Hawaii Craftsmen 40th Anniversary Annual Statewide Juried Exhibition Honolulu Academy of the Arts, Academy Art Center, Honolulu, Hawaii. Invited artist. Stoneware bottle, 12”x12”X12”. Showcase 2006 Honolulu Academy of the Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii. Invited artist. Stoneware vase, natural clay color, textured, 12”x12”, and stoneware platter, titled Landscape, high fire glazes and oxides, 14” wide. Couples: Making Art Under One Roof The Balcony Gallery, Kailua, Hawaii. Three-stoneware vases, salt fired with high fire glazes. |
2005
| Noreen Naughton - Window Series, Paul Nash - Bullet Forms The Koa Gallery, Kapiolani Community College, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii. Two-person Exhibition. Installation Sculpture consisting of one hundred and six abstract bullet forms, 6” to 50” in height, fired to cone 5, natural stoneware, brown color. Showcase 2005 Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii. Invited artist. Two-stoneware bottles, red kaki glaze, with rutile wash. |
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