This the most uplifting story I've heard in months, folding laundry I began to watch and realised I'd been holding the same pair of socks for 30 min when it finished. Haha.
Thank you, thank you! As an in-debt artist who walked away to become a scientist with health insurance, this lovely film brought tears to my eyes. Thank you, Randy Johnson. By the way, my Dad wanted me to be a doctor too, but loved and supported my art. Someday I will meet you. I have admired your work for so many years. Back in the studio now, you and your friends are a daily inspiration to me. Stay well.
I too struggled to make a living as an artist for quite a few years but when things got really bad I got a job in a plant that makes Catylitic Converters for about 12 years. I guess I can thank Randy's dad for that. But in the mean time I still did art and now that I'm retired from the factory I've taken up pottery again. A happy ending and it just shows how much we are all connected in a creative way. This is a nice inspiring film. Well done.
When you TRY to do other things but the calling for art remains and pulls. It's so refreshing to hear from a kindred soul that art is HARD to pursue in this reality. Thank you for sharing this video.
0:15 …I’m a former potter (did most of my work from the late ‘70’s off and on to the late ‘90’s). In the last 12 years I did archaeological illustration on a dig in Israel. The biggest amount of material coming from the site was pottery sherds, of course. The most exciting thing for me was occasionally finding the fingerprints of the potter who made the piece a few thousand years ago!!! 4:42 … I built my own kickwheel modeled after the English triangular frame treadle wheel… I loved that wheel… watching McKenzie throw gets me teary-eyed… I miss making pots…
This was a beautiful film thank you for making and sharing this. Some just cannot do anything other than art. It burns in their souls and they are helpless to do anything else. ❤️
Hello from Japan. Quite a marvelous video. And he describes the perfect "line", from Hamada to MacKenzie to Johnston. Thank you for providing us with this program.
.. simply put, one of the most beautiful videos I have ever seen! Thank you Goldmark for giving us a glimpse into Randy Johnson's world. He is an American treasure!! P. S.- I love all the Goldmark Gallery videos!
I'm an artist and recently have been questioning my commitment to my art. After watching this amazing artist talk with such passion, I have not doubts that I have chosen the right path, just needed to ignite that fire inside to remember how much I love being an artist and that I must not give up. Thank you!!
Great message about your finger prints.... i will add that message into my pieces...the first Rule that I heard about pottery, is that There Are No Rules ..
This reminds me of how it feels when I.m working in my studio. I sometimes forget and life outside takes over and when I walk through my studio it feels distant and my creative life miles away, but when I spend as little as 30 mins working in it again, the studio and my life feel whole again. I love this film it captures that spirit and reminds me that all of us can create this for ourselves. Sometimes we need reminding. X
Beautiful film. I have always loved your work. I worked for the Ohr-Okeefe Museum as an education person and did a lot of raku with your buddy in Long beach. I live in Minnesota now and work with clay at the Eagan art Center which is about to open a new beautiful art Center.Clay has become very popular at the center. Dina Osullivan
I really enjoy the Goldmark videos and feel so very grateful for being able to watch them. Tonight I've been revisiting three of these about great potters. I will watch them again later and still see new, inspiring things in them.
Very inspiring. I always enjoy the Goldmark films and this is one is wonderful. It’s a joy to hear an artist speak so genuinely about his life and work
This is such a heartwarming film. Thank you for making and presenting it. Randy captures what it's like to be driven to make art, as well as the challenges and rewards for choosing to be an artist and teacher. An inspiring human being as well as an awesome artist.
Beautiful Documentary And Video Production !!! POTTERY Are Outstanding AS WELL AS MASTER-POTTER ! Watching your channel from Fairfield Connecticut O6825 USA 🇺🇸 😎✌️💰💵🥂🍾🌋🇺🇸
Four things I learned from the video: 1. He apprenticed under Shimaoka Tatsuzo in Japan, and also worked with Shoji Hamada. 2. He studied under Warren MacKenzie who is an American Legend. 3. He and his wife have an arrangement that they won't collaborate on each others works. 4. He says that history should be learned through countries and peoples art.
My love for clay has exploded this year and started this year and I am going to strive to become a well known pottery and this comment is something I want to remember this year by and is a way of keeping myself on this amazing path. the year is 2020 and I just graduated hs and if I survive this craziness going on in the world this will be my future but it will be my own path with my own way and hopefully some will follow me on this yellow brick road because pottery and art is on of the pure things in this world and that can be hard to come by. while I was watching this video I was worried that I was to late to become a great but the thing that makes someone a legend is how unique they are and I was worried that there is nothing else to be done but there are always boundaries to be pushed and new ways of doing things, future me use your noggin because although right now you may not be using it the way you want it to be you will get there. do not follow every step but pay attention and make that mud your signature
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Thank you for this film. I am 58 and it changed my life.
This the most uplifting story I've heard in months, folding laundry I began to watch and realised I'd been holding the same pair of socks for 30 min when it finished. Haha.
Keep holding those socks. You were born to do it.
Thank you, thank you! As an in-debt artist who walked away to become a scientist with health insurance, this lovely film brought tears to my eyes. Thank you, Randy Johnson. By the way, my Dad wanted me to be a doctor too, but loved and supported my art. Someday I will meet you. I have admired your work for so many years. Back in the studio now, you and your friends are a daily inspiration to me. Stay well.
I too struggled to make a living as an artist for quite a few years but when things got really bad I got a job in a plant that makes Catylitic Converters for about 12 years.
I guess I can thank Randy's dad for that. But in the mean time I still did art and now that I'm retired from the factory I've taken up pottery again.
A happy ending and it just shows how much we are all connected in a creative way.
This is a nice inspiring film. Well done.
Beautiful. Loved the fingerprints in the glaze!
When you TRY to do other things but the calling for art remains and pulls. It's so refreshing to hear from a kindred soul that art is HARD to pursue in this reality. Thank you for sharing this video.
You're welcome
0:15 …I’m a former potter (did most of my work from the late ‘70’s off and on to the late ‘90’s). In the last 12 years I did archaeological illustration on a dig in Israel. The biggest amount of material coming from the site was pottery sherds, of course. The most exciting thing for me was occasionally finding the fingerprints of the potter who made the piece a few thousand years ago!!!
4:42 … I built my own kickwheel modeled after the English triangular frame treadle wheel… I loved that wheel… watching McKenzie throw gets me teary-eyed… I miss making pots…
Beautiful film, beautiful art, beautiful man.
Deeepak Chooopra
This was a beautiful film thank you for making and sharing this. Some just cannot do anything other than art. It burns in their souls and they are helpless to do anything else. ❤️
Thank you very much. We couldn't agree more!
Hello from Japan. Quite a marvelous video. And he describes the perfect "line", from Hamada to MacKenzie to Johnston. Thank you for providing us with this program.
What an absolutely riveting, unexpectedly deep and emotional story and man. My first love, clay, long abandoned, wants to return. Thank you!
Thanks for your kind words
.. simply put, one of the most beautiful videos I have ever seen! Thank you Goldmark for giving us a glimpse into Randy Johnson's world. He is an American treasure!!
P. S.- I love all the Goldmark Gallery videos!
I'm an artist and recently have been questioning my commitment to my art. After watching this amazing artist talk with such passion, I have not doubts that I have chosen the right path, just needed to ignite that fire inside to remember how much I love being an artist and that I must not give up. Thank you!!
That's great to hear. Keep it up!
Great message about your finger prints.... i will add that message into my pieces...the first Rule that I heard about pottery, is that There Are No Rules ..
What a lovely personality, how nicely you speak.
We agree!
So wonderful and fun listening to his story telling. Full of humanity ... Love his pots 😍
We do too!
What a wonderful story with a deep love for the artistry of pottery. Thank you for sharing.
You are so welcome!
Love his studio
What a fabulous film. Brilliant.
Thank you!
This reminds me of how it feels when I.m working in my studio. I sometimes forget and life outside takes over and when I walk through my studio it feels distant and my creative life miles away, but when I spend as little as 30 mins working in it again, the studio and my life feel whole again. I love this film it captures that spirit and reminds me that all of us can create this for ourselves. Sometimes we need reminding. X
Life is Wonder or Despair. Artists point out Wonder. Thanks for sharing these wonderful artists!
Beautiful film. I have always loved your work. I worked for the Ohr-Okeefe Museum as an education person and did a lot of raku with your buddy in Long beach. I live in Minnesota now and work with clay at the Eagan art Center which is about to open a new beautiful art Center.Clay has become very popular at the center. Dina Osullivan
Thank You, Randy, perfect. Clay has been my passion for almost 50 years. More to come.
Randy seems to be brilliant at following his heart, his art. Fortunate are his teachers and his students.
Absolutely!
thank you goldmark, absolutely breathtaking
Very inspiring Mr. Johnston, have been a closet creative type for most of my life and your story really sent a spear through my fears. Thank you.
I really enjoy the Goldmark videos and feel so very grateful for being able to watch them. Tonight I've been revisiting three of these about great potters. I will watch them again later and still see new, inspiring things in them.
Great to hear! Thanks.
Thanks for your art. And thanks for what you've given to the field!
So nice of you
Very inspiring. I always enjoy the Goldmark films and this is one is wonderful. It’s a joy to hear an artist speak so genuinely about his life and work
beautiful. touching. inspiring
Thank you
As a ceramic lover I have enjoyed so much this story. Makes me stronger in this art path. Grazie
Glad you enjoyed it
Very well done documentary!
Many thanks. Glad you liked it!
What a beautiful spirit. How fortunate were his students who studied with such a master artist.
This is such a heartwarming film. Thank you for making and presenting it. Randy captures what it's like to be driven to make art, as well as the challenges and rewards for choosing to be an artist and teacher. An inspiring human being as well as an awesome artist.
Thanks for that. What a warm wonderful guy.
Such brilliant work and a kind humble man.
Thank you, Goldmark. Great to see you recognize one of our American partners in clay.
Beautiful, beautiful....the pottery, the potter and the whole story around it! Thank you!☺
A talented, unassuming, genuine man. Thank you for this video. Good for the soul.
what an inspiring film! just sublime. thank you for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it!
Es hermoso! Todo, las experiencias, el amor que se tiene a un oficio tan antiguo.
Wonderful film. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it
I do not know how to describe what a nice story, I felt this in my heart.
i love your yourney . it is beautiful i was completely emotional all way through ,still am , wonderfull. thank you .
The wisdom of apprenticeship practices.
What a lovely video about your evolution as an artist. Thank you for passing the torch as the artists before you did.
Great artist and gentle human being
We agree!
This was so inspiring. Love the video.
Thank you he is a beautiful person.
Thank you, I admire yours art :)
Thank you too!
Such a joy to watch, inspiring!
Thanks!
Thank you for uploading. Its immensely motivating.
Thank you...love it
So glad!
So heartwarming
We agree!
Lovely video.
Thank you very much!
Beautiful Documentary And Video Production !!!
POTTERY Are Outstanding AS WELL AS MASTER-POTTER !
Watching your channel from Fairfield Connecticut O6825 USA 🇺🇸
😎✌️💰💵🥂🍾🌋🇺🇸
I love it
Superb. What a wonderful film about an amazing person.
lovely place, thanks for posting
Uma história inspiradora. Grata por ouvi la.
What a life! Thank you :)
Lovely lovely film...gratitude! 🧡
Wonderful video and inspiring artist 🧡
Inspirational
Very Beautiful film, thank you !
Beautiful.
An especially good place to come for worthwhile videos. Thank you ~ Jennie ~
Happy weekend and thank you *
So beautiful
A Dream…All Of It…A Beautiful Dream. ❤️
Thanks a lot!
Inspiring
Thank you
Four things I learned from the video:
1. He apprenticed under Shimaoka Tatsuzo in Japan, and also worked with Shoji Hamada.
2. He studied under Warren MacKenzie who is an American Legend.
3. He and his wife have an arrangement that they won't collaborate on each others works.
4. He says that history should be learned through countries and peoples art.
His slabs look insanely thick. How do his pieces not weigh a ton?
That three chamber pot that hangs on the wall, what is that for???
It just is
Or rather, what 'can' it be for? ; )
What a beautiful life!
That smile at the end !!!
I enjoyed this so much I am on my second time through.... ! ( ps.. It won't be my last.. ) ; )
Superb
Hownice !
thank you
Очень душевный, красивый и интересный фильм о художнике.
That was Brian Nettlas He's in the Pass now with he wonderful studio.Dina
beautiful
Very nice and beautiful
do i have any chance of becoming your student?
Amazing 👍🏻👍🏻
How Sweet
Yup, when you have to, you have to, to be happy.
Very Tender❤
Thanks
God dwells in the imaginations of masters, in any craft.
My love for clay has exploded this year and started this year and I am going to strive to become a well known pottery and this comment is something I want to remember this year by and is a way of keeping myself on this amazing path. the year is 2020 and I just graduated hs and if I survive this craziness going on in the world this will be my future but it will be my own path with my own way and hopefully some will follow me on this yellow brick road because pottery and art is on of the pure things in this world and that can be hard to come by. while I was watching this video I was worried that I was to late to become a great but the thing that makes someone a legend is how unique they are and I was worried that there is nothing else to be done but there are always boundaries to be pushed and new ways of doing things, future me use your noggin because although right now you may not be using it the way you want it to be you will get there. do not follow every step but pay attention and make that mud your signature
Very inspiring.
That losing a tool thing seems to happen to all of us....one second it’s there and the next it’s nowhere to be found😝
Ah the 20th Century, when a young person could just make a living being a random potter or artist and end up living in a house that nice.
Heady days!
super art
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Never be afraid of the fingerprint.
An archaeologist...
His dad invented the catalytic converter!!
I was expecting him to throw the clay 102MPH and hit a bird mid-flight
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