Last laminated vessels

This vase and the trio below are the last in this range of vessels using laminated clays. I feel the idea has been explored as far as it can so it is with some relief that I now say goodbye to them! They were fired the day before my experiment with the 'pot on its back' and now I feel this new discovery has more potential to take further.

Latest landscape pot

Finally, my landscape pots are getting somewhere. I lay the pot on its back and poured four glazes over the top, the first a mauve colour followed by three of my green tests allowing the glazes to flow around the body. It was fired at 1210 held above the kiln shelf by a series of ceramic wads. The glaze effects are surprising but not as much as the change in the physical nature of the pot. It almost slumped in this position and shrank unbelievably - as you can see in the comparison photo.


The glazed pot was originally the same size as the one on the right!

New and refired pots

This pot was made in May this year, fired twice with disappointing results. Last week I decided to reglaze it again using my ASMI turquoise glaze and the result below is nothing like I imagined but it is quite lovely and reminds me of the colours in Monet's water lilly series.

I picked some rhodo blossoms from the Ceramics courtyard and they brighten up the studio no end.

Another jug - but fired at 1215 degrees so pushing the Cone 6 glaze (ochre) to the max.