I am planning to be exhibiting, along with three other artists, Lucy Evans (oil paintings) and Geraldine Moses (ceramic sculptures and feltwork) and Mike Fletcher (Contemporary ceramics scupltures and 2D work), during Somerset Art week.
We will be holding our exhibition in the skittle alley of the Winchester Arms, Trull. (Handy for a bite and a pint!) - I'll add a map later, but Trull is just 2 miles from Taunton, towards the South-west.
Below is a selection of my Saggar fired and polished pots, and recent glazed work. If you are interested in buying any of them before Somerset Art Week, please email me as below.
I will be adding images throughout 2004, as I work towards the Somerset Art week.
Completed work
Saggar Fired work
Each of the pots below are thrown on the wheel; next the footring is turned using a variety of tools and then the pots are gradually burnished in three or four stages as the pot slowly dries. Each pot is allowed to dry for a few more days, then fired in a Saggar. The pot is sealed in the Saggar with sawdust and wood chips and is placed into the kiln. As this is fired in the electric kiln, the wood smolders and the residual carbon causes the various smokey bands. Each pattern is random.
Once the firing cycle is completed the pots are cooled, cleaned and polished with wax or oil based polishes.
These pots are purely decorative, as saggar firing does not allow glazing to be performed which would make the pots watertight.
Blue/Gold Pots
These pots are hand thrown, dried for a day, then the footrings are turned. The pot is then dried completely follwed by biscuit firing to 1000 deg C. Once the firing is completed the pots are then glazed, allowed to dry and refired to 1100 deg C. Finally the gold (yes real gold!) is glazed on, then the pot is re-fired to 780 deg C.
Please click on the images above for a large size picture.
Work in Progress
Please click on the images above for a large size picture.
For information please contact jim@cloverleafpottery.co.uk
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