A Pottery Retrospective

A look back at the pots, techniques and materials used to create them

Scraffito Jug

scraffito jug Date: First Pot - circa 1983
Clay: Stoneware
Construction: Handbuilt
Decoration: Scraffitto Brown Slip on greenware
Glaze: Clear on Bisque Fired Pot

Raku Bowl

white raku bowl with copper Date: circa 1983
Clay: Raku
Construction: Wheel Thrown
Glaze & Decoration: Raku Glaze, reduced in recycled automobile oil

Scraffitto Bowl

open bowl with lip and brown and ochre decoration under clear glaze
Date: circa 1984
Clay: Stoneware
Construction: Wheel Thrown
Decoration: Underglaze on greenware
Glaze: Clear on Bisqued pot

Dry Glaze Teapot

dry glaze blue teapot (non functional)
Date: circa 1987
Clay: Stoneware
Construction: (Teapot) Wheel thrown and handpulled handle
Construction: (Bowl) Wheel thrown
Decoration: (Teapot) Carving on Greenware
Glaze: Dry Glaze

Earthen Ware Bowl

earthen ware blue bowl
Date: 1995
Clay: Earthenware
Construction: Wheel Thrown
Decoration & Glaze: white and blue Earthenware Glazes

Drum

small drum
Date: 1995
Clay: Stoneware
Construction: Wheel Thrown
Clay: Stoneware
Decoration: UnderGlaze Paints, goat's skin and raffia
Glaze:Clear

Pit Fired Pot

pit fired pot with pink and black kisses
Date: 1995
Clay: Stoneware
Construction: Puki and Wheel thrown Neck
Decoration: Pit Firing of Gas Bisqued Pot using salts

Black Fired (Reduction) Glaze Fired Porcelain Pot

black pot
Date: 1995
Clay: Porcelain
Construction: Wheel Thrown
Decoration: a reduction agent such as oil is introduced into a wood fired kiln, this turns the clay bodies black.

Mexican Chiminey

terracotta mexican chiminey
"fireplace"
Date:2003
Clay:Handbuilding groggy Stoneware
Construction: Puki
Decoration: Bisque fired other marks appeared during use of the vessel

Winter Solstice Face

face
Date: 2003
Clay: Recycled Clay
Construction: Handbuilt
Decoration: From wood firing in "fireplace" at the 2003 Winter Solstice, Sydney.

Marghanita's notes on Clay