Pit Firing Birthday Celebration

WSP members celebrated Sue Broadhead’s 70th birthday with a pit firing in her garden.  Bisque pots were wrapped in copper wire, tea bags, seaweed, banana skins, leather and salt soaked pants!! Pots were packed into the large pit amongst sawdust and straw, which was then lit……stand well back or else you will get your eye [...]

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Newspaper Smoke Firing

Thursday morning class has been making porcelain ‘pebbles’ to smoke fire.  A newspaper kiln was made for the smoking, made of woven newspaper. It’s exciting to get outside and involved directly with the firing process and immediate results are always a pleasure.  If anyone has pictures of the finished fired pieces, please send them to [...]

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High Fired Tin Glaze

Ever curious what would happen if a tin glaze was fired at stoneware temperature….well John from Thursday morning class tried it and here is the result.  This is tin glaze over cobalt, manganese and copper oxides.  The glaze bubbles, leaving fantastic craters and texture.  Not everyones taste I’m sure but it’s right up my street [...]

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Something fishy…..

Not only has Zoe managed to make something this term….but she has made something beautiful.  This is Cardew blue oxide under a blue celedon glaze made by Sue.  A stunning success, a definite contender for the ‘favourite mug’ position I think.

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Hard at it!

Thursday morning class, hard at it….. Zoe, I do have a picture of you…..but I will keep it (for now)……your looking very attractive eating your peanut butter and marmite sandwich, what a combo!

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Thursday Morning Raku

Lots of Raku action at Thursday mornings class today.  As usual, a real mixture of results with the turquoise (?) glaze up to it’s old tricks.  Sue’s lady came out a lovely copper colour and Vicky’s pots were looking like they were going to be a real success. We received a few raised eyebrows from [...]

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