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I make sculptural pottery and abstract sculpture using a variety of hand building techniques including coiling, pinching and working with slabs. I use local materials as much as possible and I typically fire my work with wood.
Over the last twenty years I have focused on firing my work in Japanese-style wood kilns. In particular, I have fired a lot of my work in a style adopted from Bizen, Japan, where the work is covered in charcoal at peak temperature. The patina on the finished pieces is the result of the dynamic interaction between the materials, the forms, the placement and arrangement in the kiln, and the firing.
Eric Knoche had a very bad attitude towards pottery as a child and young adult. Towards the end of his time at university he touched clay for the first time and after that could no long imagine doing anything else with his life. He subsequently worked for two years with ceramist Jeff Shapiro and for six months with Isezaki Jun, Living National Treasure, in Bizen, Japan. In 2018 he was awarded a state artist fellowship by the North Carolina State Arts Council. His work in the collection of the Asheville Art Museum and the Mint Museum. He loves hiking, gardening, dancing the Argentine tango and collecting old pinball machines. Eric lives in Asheville, NC with his wife, Kristin and son, Benji.