The main tools in the middle – those I carry with me always, wherever I go those come with me. Those do the main job and the rest just help them out – my two hands.
Some say that potters are most unhappy people because they fail to get the expected results so often. I say potters are happiest people because every making and firing is full of surprises to be glad of.
I often say that lid and the body of a ceramic jar need to sing together. Every lid as its own tone what they make. In this 6-minute video I show how I make the final tuning to my lidded jars.
The look resembles a tree trunk or a dried earth, which it actually is.
The effect is achieved with drying the outside of the body rapidly with a help of sodium silicate and a torch. Made from the Spanish black stoneware clay and the texture is filled with white engobe to bring out the contrast between white and black.
It has been a lot of screen hours behind the computer developing the web page and reflecting on my work and values.
Finally I can open my new home for my ceramics and handcraft