Monthly Archives: September 2023

Catalpa (1)

Distorted, wide-winged vase.

Glaze applied with varying thicknesses, creating colours ranging from yellow/ochre at rim, to grey, and then to green, matte in some areas, glossy in others. Yellow slip applied over the glaze, when fired to cone 6 in oxidation, creating a contrasting, roughened, volcanic effect.

My hope was to evoke the sense of a tree moving with the wind, with delicate white spring buds piercing the foliage, reaching for the light.

Stoneware, with porcelain inserts, fired to cone 6, in oxidation

Diameter at widest point: 30 cm, height at highest point: 14 cm