Ceramic Collections

Below are some examples of the different glazes I use and different forms I make... have a look!

All my pieces are individual (I am not a production potter!). On the bottom is my maker's mark (JSK in various forms), often a year code and an individual number.

All these examples are in a fine, smooth  white stoneware.
I make bowls, jugs, bottles, lidded pots, dishes and occasionally plates in domestic ware.
More decorative pieces are vases, ikbana, tori, tsubi and troves.

   
IKEBANA
I was commissioned to make some vases for ikebana. Ikebana is the Japanese art of flower arranging - it's very formal and celebrates balance found in asymmetry and harmony between natural and manmade objects.
I have developed the classic bowl forms and tori (with a wider, decrative neck) and tsubi (straight sided, closed forms with holes for the flowers). Here in Smoky Jade and Charcoal.

       
...and BRONZE
A range of decorative pieces which have an accent in a very mecurial glaze which varies from gold, through bronze to pewter.
Here is a range of forms and glazes: Charcoal, Icing, Graphite, Lapis, Denim, Smoky Jade, White and Artemesia.

     
TROUVE TROVES
These are special pieces for collecting and showing the items you pick up on a walk.
They are a double-walled form with a dish and holes for feathers, flowers and grasses. The glazes I have developed here are inspired by pebbles picked up on Budleigh Salterton beach.
Here in Charcoal, Charcoal and Ash, Granite and Rylolite.

   
VERIDIAN SEA
A very matte glaze with a range of deep green/blue tones and speckles. I glaze to encourage the stripe but I have little control over the freckles and colour varirations - I love these accidental effects.

 
COBALT SEA
The same basic glaze as above but this time rich with cobalt.

   
LAGOON
As above - a matte glaze with speckles and glazed to create stripes. Here the colour is a zingy turquoise, sometimes with a lialc hint on the cross-over of the dipped glaze.


OCEAN SHADOW
A calcium rich, satin matte glaze with lots of chrome and some colbalt to create a deep blue/green. The glaze has marks and occlusions made during the glazing process and enhanced in the firing.


CHARCOAL and ASH
The Charcaol glaze is a satin-matte and the 'ash' is an oil spot glaze that reacts in the kiln.


TIDAL
This range is a combination of Ocean Shadow and Artemesia (a very delicate,  matte grey/green). Playful overlaps are created by dipping the glazes over each other.

   
GRANITE
This glaze is rich in calcium, nickel and manganese.  The colour and holes are developed to match the hag stones picked up on beaches in Northumberland. 

   
SEA FOAM
This is a combination of the matte white and Smoky Jade glazes, which when overlapped develop a lovely freckled effect due to the tension in flow as the glazes melt. Love the 'scoop' jug in this glaze.

   
SMOKY JADE
This is a rich, satiny sage-green glaze reminiscent of jade. 

   
AUTUMN STORM
This range is named for the lowering clouds as they gather in autumn. I especially like the rusty edge as it breaks in the gap beteewn the glazed and unglazed sections.

   
SAND
A shiny, honey coloured glaze with a distinct granular effect.


Below are ranges I don't make so often now but still love!

 
PALE LICHEN
A very tricky glaze - often pale yellow on the outside of vessels but lovely mossy, mottled effects on occasions. on eof the first glazes I made.


   
CIRCLES
Matte white with coloured circles and spirals.

   
SCANDI
This restrained colourway is created by masking out some areas from the white matte glaze.

   
LEAVES and LINES
Decorative flourishes over matt white.

   
SWIPES and STRIPES
Again decorative marks over matte white glaze.