Electric

In the electric kiln I fire tin glazed stoneware. Again the pots are thrown on the wheel and dipped in glaze before being fired to 1280 C. This is the technique I learned from Alan Caiger Smith and Edgar Campden during my apprenticeship at Aldermaston Pottery back in the ‘eighties. Though at Aldermaston we used earthenware and about half the pots were woodfired. Nowadays I only work with tin glaze once or twice a year or to special order. The tin oxide in the glaze acts as an opacifier and produces a lovely bluish white, quite distinct from the kind of white gained from the addition of zircon. The patterns – or lettering – are brushed on the dry glaze before firing (and are easily smudged or rubbed off between the painting and firing stages). The colours (with the exception of the coral pink) are composed of metal oxides: primarily cobalt, copper, ferric, vanadium, ilmenite and manganese. I spent many years doing lettering for weddings, christenings, ceremonial pots. I do this much more rarely now but am still happy to inscribe names on mugs and sometimes on jugs or plates

Harriet Coleridge Ceramics

Ewelme Pottery, Parsons Lane, Ewelme, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 6HP
m: 07474 714514 | e: harrietcoleridge14@gmail.com | Instagram: harriet_coleridge_potter
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Galleries: Contemporary Ceramics, London WC1 | New Brewery Arts, Cirencester | The Leach Pottery, St. Ives