covered jar: porcelain, 20 cm diameter, full base slip, brushed layered slips/engobes, white satin matte glaze (cone 7 oxidation)
challenge, adventure, fun, learning, physical aesthetics, bodily exertions, emotion’s very highs and painful lows, imaginative growth, dense insight, fortunate friendships, companionship with mud, hard thought: a life form all of its own in the merging of human and stuff (kéramos)…
open platter:grogged (silica sand) porcelain, 50 cm diameter, full base slip, thick layered slips/engobes, thick white satin glaze (cone 7 oxidation)
large charger: grogged stoneware, 70 cm diameter, full base slip, light touch brushings of slips/engobes, white satin glaze (cone 7 oxidation)
large flat platter:grogged, iron-laden stoneware, 80 cm diameter, heavily layered and intermingled slips/engobes, waxy matte glaze (cone 10 reduction)
vase: grogged stoneware, 48 cm x 19 cm, brush stroked slips/engobes, microcrystalline matte glaze (cone 10 reduction)
vase: black manganese earthenware, 35 cm high, rutile slip, finger tracing, once-fired (cone 02 oxidation.)
vase: stoneware, 35 cm high, multiple layered slips/engobes, white glaze (cone 8 oxidation)
ancestral fish: grogged stoneware, 66 cm wide x 14 cm high, engraved/scratched with kitchen utensils, cobalt slip/glaze, fumed, outer edge albany glaze, once-fired, (cone 6 oxidation)
turquoise fish eye
slabbottle: grogged (silica sand) porcelain, 80 cm x 41 cm, thrown neck, saturated iron glaze under clear celadon, wax resist (cone 9 oxidation)
volcanic dance: photoshop play
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Title: Dune, dark granite, 25 cm x 18 cm, once fired to cone 6/7 (fumed naturally) a frontal shot of Dune and a close up.
Title: hominid, granite,10/11cm x 13 cm, cone7/8. Unglazed, a slight fuming from the granite itself, black lines accentuate cracks and tearing shifts in the fired piece. Originally the shape of an egg. In honour of our deep precursor.
small dinner setting: stoneware, cobalt slips with hints of others, satin glaze, cone 7, oxidation
typical underside of bowl: thick slip layering, cone 6+, oxidation
stoneware serving dish: 35 cm, iron base glaze, wax resist, cobalt albany glaze, cone 7 oxidation
porcelain platter: 65 cm, turquoise glaze, over slips strokes, cone 7 oxidation
stoneware serving dish: 35 cm, cobalt albany base glaze, wax resist, iron glaze, cone 7 oxidation
typical medium vase: 55 cm high, multiple, overlayed, variegated slips, satin glaze, cone 7 oxidation
small bud vase: 18 cm, manganese earthen ware, titanium and cobalt slips, unglazed, cone 02+, oxidation
typical medium vase: 50 cm high, multiple overlayed, chrome and cobalt slips, satin glaze, cone 7+ oxidation
lidded jar: 45 cm high, beige stoneware, saturated iron glaze with sprinkled fine wood ash mixed with granular ilmenite, onto wet glaze, cone 10 reduction.
lidded jar: 18 cm high, white stoneware, multiple slips with manganese/ash on top, satin glaze, cone 7 oxidation
lidded jar: 35 cm high, beige stoneware, thin multiple slips, satin glaze with very thin ash wash on top, cone 6+ oxidation
water pitcher: 1 1/2 liters, dark stoneware, slips with satin glaze, cone 7 oxidation
a very early (late 1970s) water jug: 1 1/2 liters, iron ladden stoneware, matte white glaze exterior, cobalt black glaze interior, cone 10 reduction
larger water jug: 2 liters, beige stoneware, feathering of slips, satin glaze, cone 7 oxidation
Lifeboat: Profile, stoneware, 75 cm long, bisque cone 8, blue slip, green slip, beige/yellow slip; fired again at cone 02 with two glazes slopped onto one another.
Lifeboat: overview
title: swimming east, yearning for predawn light, white stoneware, 55 cm across, cobalt glaze, sprinkled wood ash,colourants, cone 6+ oxidation, second firing cone 02, frits
title: long wave, white stoneware, 75 cm long, cobalt glaze fired with sprinkled wood ash, cone 6+ oxidation, second firing cone 02, dusted with frits
