Wow this glazing is crazy. He has a very distinct style in all his pieces. He can throw very well and in this aspect I find him very similar to myself. He is an amazing craftsman but not so much an artist. His pots are very straight forward and I have seen these forms before with the exception of a small lip that he puts on the very bottom of the pot. This could be his signature or something like that but it is just a little pull up at the bottom of the pot. He becomes an artist and sets himself apart when he glazes. I have no idea how he does his glazing jobs, but they are really nice with the multiple layers. He also pulls off the drip without making it look like bird poop- something I am now working on. Thanks Mr. Dillon. Anyway his work is really brought out in his glazing and it looks great.

Hill's work is awesome! I really like the intensely colorful glazing. The horizontal lines of his pieces allow for an incredible amount of variation. I particularly like the glazing on the second teapot. I disagree that his forms are generic. They flow really well and The distortions of them make them unique. The glazing he does, however, outshines both his for and his distortion. The pots, in themselves, are incredibly well made and the glazing only stands to accentuate their individuality. He juxtaposes the downward vertical dripping of his glazes with the horizontal texturing of his pots. It makes for a great combination.

Those of you looking for the three extra points will need to do a little research...

Wow, not only is the work itself interesting and unique with great shapes and forms, but also the glazes that he uses to describe and finish his pieces are incredible. A couple of the pots look like the ones in the showcase in the artbarn. I think the shapes of his style give the work a lot more characteristic and life while also combining function. These pieces all illustrate a certain side of the artist and create a flawed but interesting point of view. These pieces are really inspiring and each pots' curves and lines accentuate his thoughts and ideas. Great work, very interesting glazes, and captivating shapes...

I absolutely love Steven Hill's work the glazes are amazing! and i have done my research and i have found that he gets these textures and colors from FIRING IN ELECTRIC OXIDATION!! i would love to mimic these colors. my favorite part of a pot is the glaze because it can give a pot so much life and each one of these pots has its own amazing life. my favorite pieces are the mugs because of the bright colors. Also the shapes and textures that Steven Hill adds is beautiful. i agree with john in the fact that the horizontal lines give each piece an incredible amount of variation. I love his work thanks Mr. Dillon!

Nice try Nellie, but that is not the answer. Keep trying.

hjis glazes are absolutly amazing and i love tha fact that he is able to combine functionality and beauty in the same piece. his froms are amazing; very naturakl and smooth flowing. His influences are tuscan landscape. He says

"It wasn't the Majolica pottery that Italy is famous for, but the colors and textures of Tuscany that spoke to me. The weather worn painted wood and stucco surfaces, which highlight architectural form by stripping away surface embellishment, have found their way into my pottery."
This influence is show in in his rich orange glazes that he uses and the natural way that he allows them to flow down his pieces.
He also uses another tecnique called single firing. this is where he puts the galzes on the piece before bisque firing.
Steven has been single firing his functional stoneware since 1972. Although at times frustrating to glaze raw pots, he finds it encourages directness and spontaneity in his work because of the uncertainty of the outcome of the pot

Ellen gets the 3 points! Steven Hill is famous for single firing and has inspired many people to do the same. Not only does it encourage spontaneity, but it saves energy and money. I tried it once and the piece disintegrated in my hand, so there is a real trick to doing it. If you want to try it, do some research on it.

I like his work but I think it is all way to similar. I like the more functional pieces. Everything looks very natural and like it all fits together. It does remind me of mediteranean art, which is his inspiration. I like how the bottom edge has a small lip that comes up. My favorit piece is the big pitcher. I think the glazing matches the form of the piece best here and it makes for a beautiful combination.

I love this work!
Steven Hill is extremely talented at throwing and he has a really good eye for shapes. The handles, lids, spouts, etc. in his work all work really well together to make a well balanced piece that is both interesting and aesthetic. I like the way the little lip at the bottom brings his work off the ground a little bit. However, I agree that the incredible glazes are what really set these pieces apart from the work of other artists. The rich, earthy colors and the dripping and layering technique he uses (and of course the single firing method he uses) make his surfaces absolutely gorgeous and give his work a very unique personality.

His glazing and the ridges along his pots are what really stand out to me, I like the use of different colors and although mr dillon may not like dripping (bird poop) i think steven hill does a very good job of this. The one difference between his dripping and other dripping is that he does it on many different points, not just at the top. He also adds another aspect to his dripping with the lines that remind me of scars or cuts on his pot. The ridges also help develop the pot because I think if the ridges werent there his pots would be too simple and original.

I really love how this artist uses colorful and vivid glazes to capture the essence of the pot. The tone of the glazes comes out very earthy and natural which I really like. All of his pots seem to reflect a different subject- earth, fire and water. Alot of the pots look like they are swaying and tipping. Another earthy subject, wind perhaps? This artist is very natural and earthy and his work is truly inspiring because of his use of everyday variations.

I love this work! The glazes and the forms of the pots make them seem very natural, although he still uses bright colors which make the pieces more interesting and fun to look at. Some of the forms with spouts almost look like birds to me which i think is really interesting. I actually really like how the drip effect adds to these pieces. I think it is possible to make a dripping effect work but I have not had success. The work is beautiful, unique and very inspirational to me. I would like to create or successfully use glazes to add to my pieces instead of take away from them.

With almost all of these pieces you can see that they are not entirely symmetrical. I think his aim through each piece is that he is going for form not function my favorite part of each one of his pieces though is that to me it looks like that he has a couple different glazes on each piece that blend together.Each glaze job that is done on this pot has these hreat earthy colors to it. Also he has a lot of motion that is portrayed in each one of his pieces. With the curves and angles portrayed in each pot it definately makes each pot complete. Without them I don't think they would be as intresting.

I really like this work. The shapes are very well done and the fantastic colors bring out the distortions. To me these pieces speak very loudly and have a lot of personality. They are very much focused on form rather than function. The pitchers are incredible and he really knows how the placement of the spout will change a piece.His use of drips is very incredible and the green and red colorations means that he is using copper based glazes.

awesome, the fusion of colours it outstanding. his work is clearly very functional, slightly traditional but all his shapes are special in some ways. putting handles and lids and spouts give it a great touch and i like how his forms aren't perfectly smooth or round. i like it. but the fusion of bright colours is by far the best aspect of his work.