Sunset collection

You come home, make some tea, sit in your armchair and all around is silence.

The warmth and softness of the look and feel of red stoneware, complemented with light buff speckled glaze and subtle details.

The warmth of a red stoneware

This red stoneware was one of my very first clays I decided to keep in my portfolio probably due to the multitude of the color and the shades of red it produces. Its yellow when wet, its terracotta color when bisque fired and dark red with violet and brownish hues when high fired. The clay is rich in iron and the change of iron in firing process makes the changes of color in the clay.

The ware made from this clay leaves a very natural and warm feeling, it is relaxing and calm. I like especially the combination of unglazed areas and glazed areas with a light buff speckled glaze. It’s a combination that works naturally with its soft warm colors. There are many glazes I have tested with this clay body, but barely any of them have worked well providing the feeling I was looking for. Another glaze in the series is a red glaze I have used in some special occasions; it blends with the clay naturally and does not make contrast with the clay and glaze. For some ware the combination on both has worked well where the outside is combined with bare clay and red glaze and inside of the ware is covered with the light buff speckled glaze.

Because of its warm and soft color combinations it is especially nice on everyday ware like bowls, plates, cups and mugs. Especially this clay is my favorite to make tea ware – teapots and tea bowls where usually leave the outside unglazed bare clay and cover the inside with the light buff tone to reveal the beauty of tea.

Red stoneware tepots
Coffee cups from red stoneware with buff speckled glaze inside and rusty red glaze outside
Medium bowls from red stoneware and buff speckled glaze inside
Shallow lidded jars from red stoneware and buff speckled glaze
Vase from red stoneware and mat buff glaze and graffito decoration
Bowls from red clay
Red clay teapot and tea bowls
Red clay tea bowls
shallow lidded jar from red clay and buff speckled glaze
Lidded jars from red clay and buff speckled glaze
Lidded jars from red clay. Unglazed and with rusty red glaze
Morning coffee set. Coffee jar, Coffee dipper and two cups

DESIGN COLLECTIONS

Ice crackle

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

My main limited-edition signature collection.

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 collection - closeup of a jar with Tea Dust glaze

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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Black stoneware teapot, a tea bowl and storage jar

Midnight shadows

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.

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Lidded jars from red clay and buff speckled glaze

Sunset

You come home, make some tea, sit in your armchair and all around is silence.

The warmth and softness of the look and feel of red stoneware, complemented with light buff speckled glaze.

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