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Unlike when using commercial materials, and you can just open a bag of powdered ingredients, there is a long process involved in preparing rocks for… Read More »Preparing rocks for glazes

Last year I was fortunate to be able to go out a few times with the archaeology teams that were running a series of digs… Read More »Roman kilns next to the A14

Biaxial glaze tests. I’m using the enforced lonely time in the workshop to do various things, including expanding the testing of clays and rocks that… Read More »How to make test tiles for glaze tests.

I built my little bourry-box as a small test kiln so that I could fire samples of new rock glazes and also clays that I… Read More »The old must give way to the new

Hoping for a glorious out-of-school-holiday summer break in Cornwall we spent the first two weeks of September exploring our most south-westerly county, as the storms… Read More »Winter comes early in Cornwall

After the unpack, grinding, polishing and cleaning from the last firing, and the pinging noises of crackling glazes has subsided, I start to photograph the… Read More »Drips and blushes

….is not gold. It’s probably mica! I was being optimistic thinking that the rock I collected a couple of weeks ago from the same parent… Read More »All that glitters

What better way to start off the new year and shake off that post-Christmas torpor than a few days walking in the Cumbrian National Park?… Read More »Winter in the Cumbrian Mountains