Thick slips of glaze provide the rough texture of reeds and grasses, buffeted by the wind.
White stoneware fired to cone 6, in oxidation.
Hand built, fired with slips and glaze.
Height: 27 to 29 cm; Width at base: 9 – 9.5 cm. Weight: about 860 g each
Thrown in Lagos, Algarve, at Galeria Mealha, using Spanish porcelain (Vicente Diez – Porcelana Artika XTR).
Partly coated in porcelain slip with 20% added yellow stain. Bisqued in gas kiln, to cone 06.
Streams of glaze added once back home in Ottawa. Fired to cone 6, in oxidation.