more slow pots there have been more pots in the running, despite lack of blogging, but an awful lot of other things happening such as decisions on how to finish these slow coiled pots with a plain white slip over the textured surface? unglazed and oxide painted on was really disappointing besides causing unforeseen accidents with kiln shelves so what to do? inspiration from the post war generation of studio potters is all very well, but different times breed different ideas oxide painted on and scraped off again in patterns is pleasing … inspired by natural things found and seen but what to do to fire them? in my gas kiln with reduction the oxides seem to lose the softness I want – here I have just bisque fired a little higher to try to fix the oxides for slipping/glazing in between I have been to Devon for a wonderful poetry writing course with Anne and Peter Sansom – which sent me spinning off in all sorts of other directions then I have been printing plant materials onto textiles ….. David Pearce   Pinching Seeds   36 x 45 cmsmeeting up with this wonderful painter who is selling my pots with his paintings see his gallery here and he has the only coiled pot I have glazed with the chun and slip I have to say his work is quite inspirational and some little threads of drawing might leak onto my pots soon I have also been taking part in a landscape writing course which I am sure will influence the pots and learning how to put together some different shapes which ended up as this and is cooling in the kiln as I write thoughts of my painterly oxide application and my having begun to paint again – so looking at landscape with different eyes (more in a subsequent blog) considering textures even the textiles like this piece of silk velvet which reflects light and the shimmer of light on water in the reed beds and dykes on the coast I decided to stick to what I am doing well already with the chun glaze ….. awaiting results – also a following blog as I’ll be opening the kiln on wednesday Post navigation crabs, the army and the sand martinspainting norfolk skies 2 Comments Love your scraped pots! Reply thanks Molly, lovely to have your comment …. Reply Leave a ReplyCancel reply This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.