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Totaneros potters, and Francisco Javier Bartolomé Bellón Tudela, been finalists for the National Ceramics Awards 2013 to be delivered in Madrid December 13, with the Secretary of State for Trade, Jaime García Legaz in a ceremony to be held in the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.
A proposal by the city of Totana, potters compete with fifteen entrepreneurs, potters and associations of national importance in the fourth edition of the awards on to serve on the jury Fundesarte manager Paul Velasco, the director of the Ceramics Magazine Antonio Vivas, the director of the School of Ceramics Francisco Alcanara of Madrid, José Manuel Faba, vice president of the AECC and alderman of Talavera de la Reina, Alicia Godoy, and the president of the Spanish Association of Cities and Mayor of Ceramics Totana, María Isabel Sánchez Ruiz.
Bartholomew Bellón finalist for his career
Bartholomew Bellon, master potter, has Craftsmaster letter issued by the Ministry of Technology, Trade and Industry in 2000.
In 1999 the pottery was named "Company Centennial by the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Navigation of Murcia in recognition of its century work, which has contributed to economic and social development of the Region of Murcia. Earlier this institutional body I presented them in 2001's "Mercury Award for the Arts" (Awards for Enterprise Development) in recognition of his craft and business work.
According to an account on your resume, personalities who have been dazzled by the pottery pieces Bellón Bartholomew.
Many individuals and businesses that have a personal capacity artisan pieces, among others, Carlos Slim considered by Forbes in 2012 as the world's richest man.
In addition, in 1996 during an exhibition at the Louvre, the son of Pablo Picasso, I was amazed by the reproductions inspired by the work of Picasso, Bartolomé Bellon, had performed in tribute to Spanish artist.
Francisco Javier Tudela, a finalist for technical innovation of its product
Francisco Javier Tudela Cayuela manager Alfar Tudela (Totana, Murcia), has become Murcia potter has taken a step forward in the research and development of new craft products with added value so far, experts say , had not been developed at the Spanish Levante area.
An innovation of your product is a change for the better in the offer itself (through the graphic identity, functional specs, design, adaptation to new tastes and needs, or the recreation of new parts).
In the hands of a specialist in the chemical industry, the artisan combines unique pieces with mixed glazes, oxides and engobados so far had not conjugate that way to maintain the quality of the labor ahead.
The craftsman, using these new forms of painting, Murcia played iconography scenes, landscapes and still lifes in order that the essence of the ancient tradition of pottery still enduring.
Given the growing problem of marketing of ceramic products of Asian origin, the potter has evolved in the way of making their collections keeping the mud as the basis of the same, but evolve in the paint to provide an added value that makes these pieces are unique and unrepeatable.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana
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