I will have a stall with my latest tableware and some decorative items as well, at the Dairy Road market. Please mark the day: 6th November 2022 from 10am to 2pm.
It is part of Design Canberra festival and promises to be a happy and festive event with live music food and drink trucks and hopefully nice weather.
Some photos of what will be available on my table. There might be a few surprise mirrors for sale too. Please drop by if you are in the area or travel specially. It will be worth it.
Working with clay in this cold weather is almost unthinkable. So instead I knit. I have gone from wearable to accessories. Less measurements and less reasons to unravel what is already knitted. And as usual not much for words. Let the craft speaks.
I finely got around to cleaning and sanding the bottoms of these ones. Very happy with the glazes combinations.
This will be a story told over a few posts. It is so cold and windy here that it is painful to take photos outside. Indoor photos do not do justice to theses ones.
Woodfiring is exciting and unpredictable. Usually a two day event, this time packing the kiln was done in one day thanks to some really determined and organised people (not me 😀 )
A few images from outside and inside the kiln:
The month before the annual communal wood firing is my busiest month in the year. I have made a few new vessels inspired by my visit to the Israel Museum last time I visited Jerusalem. A few images of the vessels that inspired me and a few image of the vessel that came from under my hands.
I love the colours that the chemicals and food scraps leave on my pots. A few examples of what goes inside the clay pods I encase them with.
This is how they come out of the pod….
And this is how they going to look on someone’s mantle……..
The first firing didn’t go so well so I had to raise the temperature and do it all again. This time with glorious results. I am so happy with the way the colours came out I would like to share them with you…..
And some mugs less colourful. I can’t imagine my coffee in a bright blue mug….. can you?
Next week is my first reduction firing after almost 3 years. I hope I still remember how to do it….. For those of you who are not potters reduction firing means you deprive the kiln of oxygen while firing so that the charachter of the glaze and the clay change as a result. I really love the affects of reduction firing but they are very difficult to control. Maybe that is why I like it. Control is not my thing…..
Here are some pots with glazes. Sometimes I like the way they look before the firing more than after…
It has been a long time since I’ve thrown, build or fired anything. Covid had a devastating affect on my pottery but it gave me the opportunity to be creative in many other ways. I will update my ‘About’ page to tell you all about my other creations. Being able to knit, bake and renovate my kitchen kept me sane during the time I couldn’t make pots.
I would however, like to keep this page dedicated to my clay creations.
I have started with a Christmas market at the Hive (@QBNHive.) I thought it symbolic to start at the same place I stoped when the pandemic hit. Meeting people at my table made me realise some really like my work so it made sense to start making again.
Then I joined a wood fire event at the end of last year. These are two of pieces that came out of the kiln.
In the next post I will show you what I’ve been making lately.
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