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Earthy Subjects, Shaped By Hand
Ceramics with a mind of their own, built by hand in San Antonio by Jerry Lockey. Birds, houses, bowls, platters, and garden creatures in low-fired earthenware, finished in modern and vintage glazes with colors you have to wait for. Some arrive in families, but there won’t be another quite like the one in front of you. Shouganai gives the work its rhythm: the fire gets a vote, and the work moves forward with what it decides.
Out Of The Fire, Lately
Tall Bird Column
Ceramic House Wall Relief
Windmill Platter
Coiled Planter
Eye Vase
Garden Frog
Platter In Vintage Copper
Bird, Sky Study
Inside The Studio, Briefly
A working room in San Antonio’s Beacon Hill neighborhood: earthenware clay, low fire, and glazes both modern and vintage, the old ones kept for the colors only time gives them. Every piece starts in the hand and ends in the fire, which has the last word. Sometimes the last word is “oops.” On the good days it is serendipity, and the Clay Gods are kind. Shouganai is the deal the studio makes with that: keep what the heat gives, and carry it forward.
Inside The Studio
On View, On Record
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2020On and Off Fredericksburg Road Studio Tour, Bihl Haus Arts.
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OngoingPieces available locally through Mockingbird Handprints, Olmos Park, San Antonio.
A real artist, in a real city
For commissions, sales, press, and studio visits, the Inquiries page is the door. Whether a piece is bound for a sunlit window, a low walnut shelf, or a garden wall, the studio answers within a day or two, in its own voice.
Locosan Studio Playlist
Ten Beatles songs for the studio table, the glazing shelf, and the long wait before the opening, the kind of record meant for a turntable on a slow, sunlit afternoon.
- Here Comes The Sun
- Come Together
- Something
- Blackbird
- Across The Universe
- Dear Prudence
- While My Guitar Gently Weeps
- Let It Be
- Hey Jude
- All You Need Is Love
A few useful answers
Who is Locosan?
Locosan is Jerry Lockey, building ceramics by hand in San Antonio, Texas. The name travels with the work, on the shelf and in the gallery. Ask what the work is and you get the honest answer: singular, hard to describe, and easy to live with.
What does the studio make?
Hand-built vessels and sculpture in low-fired earthenware, finished in modern and vintage glazes. Birds, fish, eyes, and leaves keep showing up on the surfaces. Nobody planned that. It is a language the ceramics keep speaking, and the studio has learned to listen.
What does Shouganai mean here?
It is a Japanese word the studio holds as a working philosophy. The fire decides things a maker cannot, and Shouganai is the grace to accept that, keep what the heat gives, and move the work forward. The San Antonio translation is shorter: oops, shouldn’t have done that. And when it goes the other way, the studio has a phrase for that too: the Clay Gods were kind.
Can you make another one?
Sort of. The birds come in flocks and the frogs have cousins, so there may be a sibling: same family, its own face. What there won’t be is another quite like the one you saw. The hand doesn’t repeat, and the fire definitely doesn’t.
Can I eat off it?
No. The pieces are low-fired earthenware in modern and vintage glazes, and they are made for looking at, not for lunch. Everything in the studio is decorative, not for food use. Shelve it, hang it, plant it, or give it room to hold the room.
Can pieces be collected?
Most pieces are available by inquiry, and several live in person at Mockingbird Handprints in Olmos Park. Ask about any piece and the studio replies within a day or two with its price and story. Begin at the Inquiries page, whether the piece is bound for a quiet shelf, a bright wall, a garden, or someone you love.
How should press reach the studio?
Email info@locosan.com with the deadline, outlet, image needs, and the piece or topic in question.