Glaze development with biaxiales

Properties & Qualities

Application

Art, Product, Sample making

Qualities

3D, Shiny

Colour

Earth-colour

Sample Information

Date of creation

15/08/2022

Culture & Context

This was a weekend long ceramics workshop with Matthew Blakey. Where we went into detail on developing and creating our own natural glazes using materials sourced from our homes. This course was hosted by Kigbeare studio in Okehampton, 2022.

Process & Production

Prior the course beginning, we were instructed to being glazing materials from our home area. This will encourage a wide selection of results when we took the stuff out of the kiln. This is when I took the materials I collected from Mallorca with me, to test and understand the Olive wood ash more but also the wild clay I gathered. In teams of two, we tested and mixed materials to get different results. Working with someone from Devon, we developed a glaze biaxial using Andersite, a hard rock in which we blended it with my wood ash and other materials like quarts and china clay. These volumetric blending test helps us to understand the way materials work. Blending 4 recipes and seeing how they all work, figuring out the best result from all and from there. Creating a new glaze, using materials source from the land. A unique result every time. In one of the photos, you see us blending 25 test pieces together. In another you see a line blend results, using purely the wood ash and Mallorcan clay. And the other, finished results of the test.