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Nic Collins Recent Anagama Wood-fired Stoneware 9th to |
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Woodfiring is the oldest method of pottery production
and to my mind the most exciting. One of Many potters
are happy to buy prepared clay and to fire the resultant pots in an electric
kiln, but mixing your own clay and then firing an anagama kiln, looking
primordial like some ancient burial mound, is something else. I suspect that
Nic has an innate need to go through the trials and tribulations of the 3 to
4 day firings to a temperature of over 1300 degrees, producing a fire so hot
that it melts ash into a landscape of colour upon the pot's surface. Even
then the process is not finished, as there is the long cooling period and
then days of cleaning the pots that have survived. Of course, if you are
really brave you can follow Nic's lead and re-fire
some of the pots all over again - up to seven times in extreme cases! As the
potter, Michael Cardew, once said, "The effort to overcome technical
problems and difficulties is an integral part of the content, the expression
which (the potter) puts into his work." Nic will be
present at the Private View on Sunday 9th November and the exhibition
continues until close of business on Sunday 30th November. I hope that you
are all able to get along at some point. |
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