Soda Fired Porcelain and Stoneware 2019
This series of functional ceramics was produced in 2019. All of the pieces are soda firing, a process where a mixture of hot water and sodium carbonate is sprayed into the kiln at a temperature of around 1250 degrees Celsius. The soda turns into a vapour and is carried with the flame and extreme heat throughout the kiln. It reacts with the clays and glazes to produce a wide range of colours and surface effects.
The blue/green pottery is made with porcelain and has a copper based glaze applied to the exterior. The porcelain provides a bright white surface for a myriad of brilliant colours from the combination of soda and glaze.
The stoneware pottery is made with an iron rich clay that reacts strongly to the soda vapours. Some of these pieces were glazed with the same copper glaze as the porcelain work. Others were glazed with locally sourced materials, a clay dug from the property where in live in Cumberland and another that originates from a stone cutting company in Coquitlam.
This series of functional ceramics was produced in 2019. All of the pieces are soda firing, a process where a mixture of hot water and sodium carbonate is sprayed into the kiln at a temperature of around 1250 degrees Celsius. The soda turns into a vapour and is carried with the flame and extreme heat throughout the kiln. It reacts with the clays and glazes to produce a wide range of colours and surface effects.
The blue/green pottery is made with porcelain and has a copper based glaze applied to the exterior. The porcelain provides a bright white surface for a myriad of brilliant colours from the combination of soda and glaze.
The stoneware pottery is made with an iron rich clay that reacts strongly to the soda vapours. Some of these pieces were glazed with the same copper glaze as the porcelain work. Others were glazed with locally sourced materials, a clay dug from the property where in live in Cumberland and another that originates from a stone cutting company in Coquitlam.