Small-batch stoneware
Mugs, bowls and jugs thrown on the wheel in a one-room studio and fired in a small electric kiln. A batch is a dozen pieces or fewer, so no two come out quite the same.
Recent work
Tide mug
350 ml · speckled stoneware · celadon
Ember bowl
16 cm · iron red over white slip
Field plate
24 cm · matte oatmeal glaze
Night jug
0.8 l · tenmoku with a rust break
Pebble cups
Pair, 180 ml · raw exterior, blue liner
Salt bowl
9 cm · wood-ash glaze
How it's made
Clay
A buff stoneware body with a fine iron speckle. Every piece is thrown, trimmed the next day and left to dry slowly under plastic for about a week.
Glaze
Glazes are mixed in the studio from raw materials in small test batches. A recipe goes through several rounds of test tiles before it lands on a finished piece.
Firing
A bisque firing to 1000 °C, then a glaze firing to cone 6, around 1220 °C. Everything is food-safe and goes through the dishwasher without complaint.
The studio
One wheel, one kiln and a shelf of test tiles in a converted garage. Pottery started as an evening class and slowly took over the weekends.
Photos of finished pieces are being re-shot, so drawings stand in for them for now.