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Harlequin Gallery
Graham Ellerby finds little time to exhibit, as he has taught full-time since graduating from Farnham in the days of Henry Hammond over 30 years ago. Therefore I was delighted when he agreed to take part in the "Fire & Energy" exhibition.
His work shows his admiration of Japanese Iga ware, English mediaeval and traditional Mediterranean ceramics as was evident in his previous Harlequin Gallery exhibition. However, a recent development has been his experiments with "tumble stacking" his pots in the kiln. Many of these pots are fired on their side to get the maximum effect of fly ash and the small amount of salt that is added towards the end of the firing process.
Graham builds and designs his own kilns, which he uses along with his wife, Katerina Evangelidou. For those of you with a copy, a diagram of his current kiln can be seen on page 79 of Phil Rogers' book "Salt Glazing" published by A&C Black. This is fired using waste sump oil on a drip fed "louvre" burner plate and later in the firing wood is stoked into the main chamber. The kiln is reduce cooled by filling the fireboxes with wet logs. Slow cooling for two days follows before finally opening the kiln.
Below are some of Graham's pots included in the "Fire & Energy" exhibition that takes place at the gallery from 16th May until 6th June 2004.
No.132 - Teabowl
Width: 10cm (4")
No.138 - Bagwall Pot.
Height: 8.5cm (3.25")
No.105 - Dark pot with lugs.
Height: 25.5cm (10")
No.112 - Bottle.
Height: 24.5cm (9.5")
No.121 - Squared Lugged Vase
Height: 24cm (9.5")
No.115 - Squared Bottle
Height: 23cm (9")