{"id":3382,"date":"2012-06-30T11:04:48","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T18:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janewheeler.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3382"},"modified":"2012-07-01T08:39:59","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T15:39:59","slug":"getting-ready-for-hatfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janewheeler.co.uk\/blog\/blog\/2012\/06\/30\/getting-ready-for-hatfield\/","title":{"rendered":"getting ready for hatfield"},"content":{"rendered":"

although I have probably five times as many pots as I need for Hatfield, there is still a sudden need to produce a new idea I have thought of at the last minute – platters – not really a new idea, I have made them before, but I suddenly thought it would be good to do some with the layered and impressed technique and glaze them like this; ( this is the image I made for my card)<\/p>\n

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I made four like this; supporting the edges with rolls of bubble wrap and using st thomas clay with grog added, and t-material for the white clay<\/p>\n

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and some more like this using Earthstone’s crank, with porcelain or t-material.<\/p>\n

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unfortunately I put four into the recent bisque firing at the top, and two blew because the gas flame touched them<\/p>\n

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they were the nice ones with the oak leaves. I also lost another one in drying it upside down. the two that survived the bisque are in the kiln cooling after today’s glaze firing. I also have two more big bottles which I hope will be good enough for Art in Clay in there.<\/p>\n

the big pieces will be the attention grabbers I hope. I will also be making big pieces on my stand. currently I am editing stock, as Kay Corbett is coming to install shelving in the stockroom come showroom – everything has to come out, and it will be interesting to see what makes it back in.<\/p>\n

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these big old pieces are the first to go outside. I think I will keep most of them … but it doesn’t hurt them to stay out until the first frosts.<\/p>\n

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this old friend is really a second, as it has a big crack extending into the foot which happened during firing, but Gas Kimishima repaired it with urushi (Japanese laquer) and gold powder, and I am going to put some gold on the raw edge of the chipped spout. sadly having work in galleries can be a problem if they are not too careful. it has a lot of presence, which is what I am looking for for Hatfield. there is one more large old piece which I think is good enough, then two recent large bottles in the black clay. so that could be six large bottles if I am lucky with the two in the kiln, and six is probably about twice as many as I really need. then some stand-out medium size things and mostly small affordable ones. some of the work which I want to take dates back to 2008 and the anagama firing with Gas, and some is very new.<\/p>\n

Choosing work is quite difficult, but I have to be really pared down, not have too many pieces and not worry about selling pieces and then having replacements, because this is my first time and I am looking at it more as an advertising effort, PR, than as a way to sell pots. also a way to see where I stand amongst potters and where I want to go, what I want to hone, and what I want to discard about my practice.<\/p>\n

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although I have probably five times as many pots as I need for Hatfield, there is still a sudden need to produce a new idea I have thought of at the last minute – platters – not really a new idea, I have made them before, but I suddenly thought it would be good to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4GKTU-Sy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/janewheeler.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/janewheeler.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/janewheeler.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janewheeler.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janewheeler.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/janewheeler.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/janewheeler.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janewheeler.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janewheeler.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}