collaboration of local clay and junk ash glaze, with  Chew Yue Chin, fired by Jack Tilson and Rain Zuo

thank you to all who took pleasure in clay footbath with clays from Waipapa (Mairangi Bay) and Horahorawai (Snells Beach) yesterday at Little Forest B&B

thank you to all players at clay footbath at Local Clay Summit at and around Ostend Ratepayers Hall, Waiheke, organised by David Duval-Smith and friends

preparing Katsunori Yotsumoto's clay, harvested from NZ roadside

Interested in various states of "failure"

using our frugal 50:50 ash/clay glazes on some donated mass-produced pots, and various “stuff” made of local clays... for first experiment using gas kiln

J: Jacks glaze

Jack tells me that we should wait around 5 days for these to dry out before using them: “I think we should let the kiln shelves dry out completely for like 5 days if they were painted yesterday because some are silicon carbide shelves and they tend to explode in the gas kiln if they are wet”

experiment

crushing gift pumice in pillowcase in preparation for glaze test

filtering pumice for test glazes

crushing and filtering pumice from Taupo for test glazes (given to me by neighbour Al as he was moving out of his home of 40+ years, this pumice has been in his potplants)

various aspects of ash and local clays for making simple glazes

Jack’s example of glaze made with wood ash and clay from “hobsonville”. Vessel made of “hobsonville” clay.

kiln now going!

tea party, dance studio, "do-nothing" pottery session with "waste" Tamaki Makaurau clays, etc, at Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery was fun and weird , all day