photos: Nicky Saunter

I throw all the pots on an electric Alsager wheel in Fremington red earthenware clay from C. H. Brannam at Barnstaple.  When fully dry the pots are slowly bisc fired to 885°C in one of my two Cromartie electric kilns, then dipped in an opaque creamy white tin-glaze.  After another day drying out, each pot is individually painted on a banding-wheel, using handmade sable brushes with pigments and oxides.  The overnight glaze-firing needs careful watching in the final stages to reach 1060°C by gently "soaking" for several hours.

I use combinations of eight colours across my wide range of ware (the harshness of pure copper and cobalt oxides tempered with a little ilmenite).

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