Midnight shadows collection

Shadows hide the color opening the playground of light and dark.

Made from black Spanish stoneware clay with added contrast or sometimes just bare black natural clay to pay tribute to the material itself.

Midnigh Shadows – just black or white on black

This is perhaps a plain and boring style collection. But that depends on the preferences and personal taste. There are no colors in it, just the play of black and white and shades and shadows. Occasionally still the white glaze I use here produces a brownish hue to the areas where the glaze layer is very thin, but more often just the dark clay adds some geryish tint there instead resembling the early morning mist.

I use a Spanish black stoneware with a lot of very fine crog. When well burnished the bare matt surface has a silky soft and warm touch. The back color of this clay has still warmth in it being calm and silent.

The combinations of glazed and unglazed areas is part of my handwriting, I find it dull but also disrespectful to the old material to totally cover it with glossy glaze surfaces. Leaving unglazed areas is my way to respect the material I use, giving us the opportunity to understand and feel the material itself.

I vary here with shades of black and white, but as well with texture added to the clay, sometimes leaving the exterior fully unglazed with just some slight texture on the body to enhance the look and feel.

I hope it brings calmness, and silence as there is in the forest in the middle of the night.

Collection gallery

Bowls from back stoneware and white glaze

Black stoneware medium bowls with white glaze and white chattered texture

Black stoneware vase with white decoration

Tea bowls from black stoneware with white glossy glaze

Storage jars from black stoneware, unglazed from outside

Closeup look at the black stoneware lidded jar with a white chattered and tree trunk texture

Black stoneware vases with white contrasting decoration

Black stoneware teapot, a tea bowl and storage jar

Storage jars from black stoneware and white chattered and tree trunk texture

Design collections

Ice crackle

A glaze with many names: ice crackle, tortoise shell, snowflake and many more.

Made with thick layer of crackle glaze where the fractures develop the look of cracked ice. Hence also its name – Ice Crackle.

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Stardust

When the odds become even during the firing process the iron rich glaze develops beautiful golden microcrystals. Sometimes covering the whole ware with golden hue and other times just few golden sparks like stars.

Glaze that’s originally called “Tea-Dust” and was mainly used in Imperial ware.

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