At 10am on Friday there was a scheduled tour of the old Hycroft Pottery factory which operated in competition with Medalta from the thirties until the sixties. It is full of amazing machinery and a vast circular kiln all slowly rotting away. For some years the building was used as the home of the Ceramic Residency programme as it started out. We are SO lucky…

Now it's Sunday evening already and I have four days to catch up on so I'll try to be brief. Waiting for the kiln to cool was frustrating but it needs almost 2 days. So on Thursday I assembled a fun vase, using 5 wheel-thrown parts and a practical casserole. A construction worker popped in to tell us he'd found a live but small bull…

team-work for an exciting firing

I weighed out and mixed up a batch of shino glaze first. The rest of the morning was spent carefully wadding my pots and glazing the interiors with the shino glaze (thin). Claude and I carefully loaded the salt kiln. Joanne, Jin, Teresa and Sandi contributed pieces and at the end Jim Etzkorn allowed some of his work to go in at the top for…

a huge amount of work is being produced in the Residency studios..