Little tea bowl out of my recent reduction firing #teabowl #wheelthrown #australianceramics
This beautiful little patch of buffel-free bush is known as Henry’s Garden and is about a 15 Minute walk from my house. My colleague Henry Smith has spent many many hours and many years tending this area and clearing it of buffel grass so that the native plants and grasses are growing back. As you walk through the hills it stands out so beautifully from the surrounding buffel covered landscape. Today the local landcare group had a huge buffel bust in Henry’s Garden. Serendipitous timing with my buffel glaze tests. Once that ash has cooled I’ll be out there with my gloves and mask shovelling that buffel ash into my bag for glaze making! #ashglaze #buffel grass #currentobsession #ceramics #localmaterials #australianceramics
Anyone who lives in or has visited Central Australia cant miss the impact of invasive buffel grass. It’s a blight on this beautiful landscape. After de-buffelling a section of land across from her house, my partner in crime @lyonsuzi delivered me a bag of buffell ash that I whipped up into a few glaze tests. Here’s the results. Certainly encouraging us to keep de-buffelling and try to make something beautiful and useful out of such a problematic pest. #buffellgrassglaze #ashglaze #localmaterials #invasivespecies #australianceramics
Clay, timber, rammed earth. Super simple bowl just out of the kiln. #wheelthrown #bowl #ceramics #endlessglazetesting #australianceramics
In the studio making bowls listening to the history of the bowl, the rise of the bowl, the meaning of the bowl and @wingnutandco talking about and making bowls on Radio National’s Blueprint for Living. Synergy 😀 #bowls #ceramics #wheelthrowing #rightontrend #australianceramics #radionational #blueprintforliving
A heavenly afternoon in the studio throwing big (ish) bowls #wheelthrowing #porcelain and #stoneware #bowls #australianceramics