Featured Articles
"I'm a perfectionist, but not in the sense of being so perfect that it's cold. Whatever I do, I want it to have a certain quality of precision, but it also has to have spirit." - John Tilton
Choose from a selection of articles below. Articles published on the Tilton Pottery web site are done so with persmission from the author and/or publisher.
"John Tilton's Crystalline
Matts" - by Anne Tilton.
Clay Times, Mar / Apr 1997 issue, pp. 40-41.
My husband John Tilton makes porcelain art pottery: bowls, vases and covered jars with cone 10 reduction glazes. The forms are intensely simple and restrained, and the glazes are quiet and deep. It's pottery far removed from the mainstream of ceramics, as our lives are also removed: we live and work in a meditation community.
"Contemplative Pots" - by Anne Stewart.
Craft Arts International, Mar / June 1991 issue, pp.55-59.
It's no accident that John Tilton's work is often described in metaphysical terms, for he intends, by using porcelain forms and his matte crystalline glazes, to address and explore the subtle realms of existence, or, as he puts it - the 'macrocosm and microcosm'.
"From Figures to Forms"
- by Amalia Amaki.
Southern Homes, May / June 1987 issue, pp. 50-54.
What motivates a man of mathematics to become a man of porcelain, stoneware and clay? An idea which cultivates a vision, a willingness to undergo radical change and courage to exercise obedience in response to an emerging creative ability. Such is the case with John Tilton...