Monday, December 18, 2017

Night garden


I found a box of six bisqued lily forms from 2014 recently and decided to give 3 of them a quick glaze in the test kiln.

Friday, October 20, 2017

Low tide series three with gold


I think the gold "pings" the pieces and was what I intended earlier on. However I'd run out of the gold lustre glaze at that time and the kilns were heavily booked so a month later, they're now finished!

Saturday, October 7, 2017

Low Tide


Two remaining from series one and three from series two came together to win a merit prize at our Otago Potters Group annual exhibition 6 Oct 2017. That's a $US50 Amazon book voucher - how nice. The judge also liked "Jaffa and Gumdrops" but decided on this group.

Friday, September 15, 2017

Mandarin and lime


Pot by Erin, glazing by Liz, mandarins from Keri Keri via Fresh Choice

A bit mad, a bit of fun, perhaps too far in this guise, watch this space!

Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Flight

These are a "naked raku" experiment - I love the totally random decoration that occurs although in this instance, I have etched in small bird forms. The colours remind me of looking out my kitchen window on clear and cold evenings, the skies pink and everything else black.

Mt Ida - states of thaw





These were originally part of my "low tide" set but in a fit of something or another, decided to reglaze these two. I like them but the colours are very subtle and it's proven very difficult to take photos that show them in their true light. One needs to think carefully about colour from the outset when the work's future might depend solely on a photographic image unless you have access to a true 3D lighting set-up. On this occasion, I had no idea what would happen when I decided to re-glaze let alone how difficult it would prove to be when photographing them!

Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Monday, January 30, 2017

The Everywheres



They've been here, there and everywhere, collecting a couple of gongs on the way. Now they're back here and enjoying their place in the garden at Brighton.