John Booth

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John was born in Austin, Texas. At the age of 5, he began playing with clay and took his first sculpture class in High School. He studied sculpture at Southwest Texas State University and from there his career as a sculptor developed. 

John’s collector list includes patrons in North America as well as abroad. His work has been shown in galleries in Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico, Dallas, Austin and San Antonio, Texas, Scottsdale, Arizona and Chicago, Illinois. Over the years, John has studied the traditional regalia and masks of Hopi Kachinas as well as Plains Indian dress. He has perfected the art of raku firing, which he applies to his ceramic sculptures. Both his bronze and ceramic pieces reflect his painstaking attention to detail. 

The Process..

First, John sketches out his ideas. Once he finds a design that inspires him, he sits down in his studio and start rolling out clay slabs to start building the base form. Once the form is created, he starts adding and carving details of the design to the clay form. He then lets it set for several days to dry to be able to go through the first fire. After the first fire he then adds color, second fire the piece up to 1,830 degrees, once it hits the temp of 1,830 degrees, he takes it out of the kiln and sets them in metal cans full of sawdust then covers them with a lid. The piece will now sit in fire and smoke for about 30 minutes creating the one-of-a-kind colors that the Raku process brings.