Victoria Thompson Ceramics

Including ceramicists: Jim Malone Shoji Hamada Phil Rogers Ken Matsuzaki Charlie Collier Lisa Hammond Jean-Nicolas Gérard Mike Dodd Anne Mette Hjortshøj Nic Collins Roelof Uys Matt Foster Lucie Rie Mick Casson Jennifer Lee Robin Welch Rachel Wood Richard Long Karen Howarth Richard Batterham Zeba Imam Melanie Keeling Charlie Collier Margaret Curtis Wayne Clark John Calver Adam Keeling Rachel Wood Tom Knowles Jackson Anne-Marie Jacobs Fitch and McAndrew

A ceramic glaze can seem complicated because each ingredient, whilst often having a primary purpose, often contributes in more than one way to the success of the glaze. To explore this, I will use a traditional green celadon glaze. The Green Celadon recipe used as an example in this article is from John Britt's The Complete Guide to High-Fire Glazes: Glazing & Firing at Cone 10 (2007, p. 69). Green Celadon Potash feldspar — 30% Silica — 30% Whiting — 20% Kaolin — 20% Red ir

I recently spent a day on Ingleborough in the company of a geologist, which gave me an entirely new way of looking at a landscape I might otherwise have simply admired for its rugged beauty. The hills around Ingleborough are underpinned by an extraordinary amount of limestone, formed around 330 million years ago during the Carboniferous period. Vast limestone pavements stretch across the landscape, their slabs broken into patterns of deep cracks and fissures formed over thou