The process
Thrown, glazed, fired.
Every piece goes through the same three stages, by the same pair of hands.
01
Thrown
Each form is pulled by hand on the wheel from a single ball of speckled stoneware, then trimmed and left to firm up slowly. I throw in modest quantities — enough consistency across a batch, but never so many that the work becomes mechanical.
02
Glazed
After a bisque firing, each piece is glazed by hand. I make my own glazes rather than using commercial ones — more testing and more failed batches, but also more range. Colours shift depending on application thickness, proximity to other pieces, and how hot the firing ran.
03
Fired
Everything is fired twice: once for the bisque, once for the glaze. The final firing reaches stoneware temperature — hot enough that the glaze vitrifies and the clay body becomes dense, durable, and food-safe. No two firings are quite the same. Neither are the pieces.
