Saturday, 14 November 2009

I A C Membership & A New Article Published


I was honoured last month to have been accepted as a member of the International Academy of Ceramics. The above images from their website.
I have also had a new article on developing translucent bodies published in the latest issue of Ceramics Technical (no 29) This excellent journal, originally from Australia, is now published in the US

Saturday, 7 November 2009

It's Coming on Christmas......

A selection of my work that will be available at the Gauteng Craft and Design Centre, Sandton from November 18th at 6:00 pm. The show 'Coming Together at Christmas' is a collaboration between Ceramics Southern Africa and the Gauteng Craft & Design Centre.

Saturday, 31 October 2009

Turbulent Indigo

A new colour test. Dark dramatic blues reminiscent of stormy summer skies created from stronger solutions of cobalt chloride with touches of ferric and barium sulphate. 

Wednesday, 21 October 2009

Something Slightly Different

A new piece, this time I have first banded wax, before decorating with more wax followed by brush strokes made with solutions of Potassium Dichromate and Ferric Chloride

Wednesday, 14 October 2009

Ceramics S A Regional Exhibition

The C S A regional exhibition opened on Monday evening, at the Edoardo Villa Museum on the University of Pretoria Campus. I was asked to be one of the selectors for the work, together with Jerice Doeg and Harrie Siertesema and Wilma Cruise was the awards judge. The standard, for a regional exhibition was high and a number of awards were presented to amongst others, my colleague Eugene Hon, Hazel Sherman, and Karen Murray. The premier award was presented to Dale Lambert, whose work is pictured above - delicately thrown and 'etched' porcelain pieces.
 Congratulations to everyone who participated in this show, contributing to the overall success of the exhibition.

Thursday, 24 September 2009

Staff Show, University of Johannesburg

Once again we have the staff exhibition at the University of Johannesburg. This year the focus is on practice-based research. The title of my installation showing my process is 'The development of Soluble Salt surface treatments on Bone China'

Sunday, 20 September 2009

2 More Pieces

Two more images of recent work. Here I have used my favored soluble salts again, namely cobalt and ferric chloride and potassium dichromate. The salts are used on the bisque fired surface before firing to top temperature. The image below is a new tea bowl form.