Paper Clay and throwing with Peter Collis 2019/2020.

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      The start of our ceramic journey playing and discovering about the materiality of paper clay.

      Mask with oxide.
      Waka journey. Oxide on over Egyptian paste.
      Baskets of knowledge with oxide over.

      Throwing a Teapot with Peter, September, 2020. To research the history of tea pots , look at other artists work, manage the technical aspects , ensure functionality and use some glazes. Encouraged to play with ideas.

      My composite thrown Teapot examples with Peter’s non crackle white and fired at 1180 degrees centigrade.
      Kaput

      An example of a rounded 6 cup teapot broken due to filling the leather hard pot with water 3 times to check on it’s pouring ability. In future I’ll check once when the clay is still moist otherwise will wait until it is bisque fired. Encouraged to make bigger Teapots with using soft clay.

      • Wheel thrown at home
      • Convex and concave animal shapes thrown on the wheel
      Thrown pots connected on wheel and drop mould spouts and handles on 2 of them. Proportional clay used for lower and upper is 2/3rd for bottom and 1/3rd for top.

      Convex and concave pots manipulated by cutting clay out the back and then joined back together.

      Pots in for bisque fire

      Peter giving an assessment of my Neolithic painted jugs.

      Neolithic jugs

      I was advised to take a photo of the placement of pots for an exhibition and on a big piece of paper write the number which coincides with the number on a sticky under each pot.

      Neolithic jugs with rolled handles focussing on proportion and glaze looking more ancient.
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