dark pot...

Smoked this baby yesterday, still smells like a bonfire but that will fade. I used dry meadow grasses and the smoking/burning was fast and furious, producing beautiful dark browns, ochres and buff. It will take at least a week to develop and the shades and shapes will become more defined and subtle. 

build it, bake it, smoke it...

I started to work with clay late last year and by the end of the year I was hooked. Taking my inspiration from organic forms, sea shells and seed heads, I made highly textured pieces. By spring my attention turned to smoother clay and larger pieces, again organic in nature, but finer, larger and bolder. I don't want to say too much, I'd rather that I show what I'm doing and invite your feedback. Here's one of my 'stones', hand built, biscuit fired and smoked...

...and here, one of my smaller, 'egg shell' forms - fine, fragile and burned/smoked to this more dramatic appearance.