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Aaron Raymond | Episode 1121
Aaron Raymond is a Canadian potter that started his pottery journey in March of 2024. He has learned everything so far from the school of YouTube and by watching videos on Instagram. Aaron’s work focuses on creating tiled designs on his work using both original designs or recreating tiled flooring from around the world. Aaron’s interest in handmade pottery began while living in Lisbon, Portugal, for 2 years from 2018 to 2020, and it was the intricate stone designs in the plazas and sidewalks of Lisbon that first transpired the idea of putting these designs onto clay.
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What do you like about the life of a maker?
I think I like, especially with pottery, that it’s never the same thing day after day. Every day you have something new to do in the process. Whether you are throwing or attaching handles it’s never the same thing over and over again.
Do you feel like you were a creative person your whole life?
A little bit. One of my first jobs was with my family’s business, a stone yard. We were splitting granite to make different shapes for homes. It was hard work but in a sense creative work that I enjoyed.
How do you keep your ideas fresh?
With this style I am doing the possibilities are really endless. With the amount of different tile work that is out there in the world I don’t have any shortage of ideas of things I want to try.
Where do you see yourself in one year?
I have a feeling it will be pretty similar just because I’ve had so much good response and people do want mugs and I just can’t make them that fast. So I think for the next while it will be very similar.
What has become your favorite studio tool?
I don’t even know what it’s called but you have probably seen it. A pottery clamp.
Another Canadian potter made that I believe, right?
That’s right and I forget her name off the top of my head but it allows it to spin freely without the handle getting in the way. Which is great for glazing.
How would you define creativity?
Being able to put what you have in your mind to something, whether it be on the page, in a painting, on clay. Whatever comes to your mind to be able to put that out into the world.
Book
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
Contact
Instagram: @redacted_ceramics