Glazes

Glazes under microscope

Here are some photos of glazes under microscope. It’s like exploring space.

Living crystal structures captured in time. Microworlds hidden from our eyes. Poetry of nature.

Glaze 14

Glaze 15

Glaze 1

Glaze 3

Glaze 12

Glaze 11

Glaze 10

Glaze 9

Glaze 8

Glaze 7

Glaze 6

Glaze 5

Glaze 4

Glaze 3

Glaze 2

Glaze 1

Glaze 16

Glaze 2

Pinchpots

New pinchpots!!

It’s been long time since we posted something on our blog, but today we finaly took some pictures of our latest work. This is what we made with blue, green, white and violet glazes made by David.

Blue shades mugs

Vivid violet small pinchpot on a plate

Smokey black and white teabowl

Dark shadows teabowl

River blue black coffee cups

Roots small pinchpot

Smalvivid violet pinchpots on a plate

Spotty white Roots bowl

Lavander violet small pinchpot

Lavander violet Roots bowl

Lagoon turquize mug

Pinchpots

Black Pinchpots

Moment mug, 2017

Handle of Moment mug

Big blue bowl, 2017

Blue mugs. 2017

Red bowls, 2017

Magic blue mug , 2018

Black roots mugs, 2017

Magic blue bowls, 2017

Moon Quarter coofee mugs, medium size, 2018

Moon Quarter coofee mugs, different sizes, 2018

Moon Quarter coofee mugs, big size, 2018

Moon Quarter coofee mugs, espresso size (small), 2018

White Roots Pinchpots, 2018

Here are some black stoneware pinchpots that we made this winter: bowls in different sizes, mugs and plates with some of our tipical glazes that we developed by ourselves.

We could say this style of pottery is tipical for us, for example we make different variations of Moment mug for a few years now, we actually make them in three different sizes, the smallest is great for black coffee, the medium and large size for white coffee or tea. The handle of this mug is also very special, it takes quite some precise work and skill to make it.

Also tipical is the metal looks that we get with combination of ceramic body and glazes. What else could we say about our black pots? As all of them are made with pinching technique we could say they are sort of primitive but on the other hand they are very thin which makes them elegante and timeless in terms of design. Pinching is one of most ancient techniques of making pottery. Pots are shaped very slowely, completely by hands… pinch, pinch, pinch until you like the shape and make it thin enough. For us this is sort of meditation and is great mental therapy 🙂

woodfired ceramics

Project: Woodfired!

Copper Age Chawan, 2017

Blue Chawan, 2017

Copper Age Chawan, 2017

Copper age tea bowls, 2017

Lately we’ve been working on our woodfire kiln. It’s actually a small test kiln inspired by japanese anagama. We fired it for three times, the results were better after every next firing, but the kiln fell a part after the last try, so probably we’ll not be able to fire it again. Anyway our plan for the future is to build a bigger kiln made of bricks.

It’s a special expedition every time we go woodfiring. We go to Kozarisce, where we used to live and where we started with our ceramics. There is David’s grandmothers house in this rural area of Slovenia. Kozarisce is a small village with a big castle surrounded by wast woods. Wild animals live in the woods and also the brown bear. Better not go to far in the woods at night! Ha ha!

It’s a few days project every time we are firing. Preparations have to be made, put the kiln together, make some improvements with the fire place, prepare the pieces and loading. Usually it takes one day. Since we go there together with our daughter, David does most of the “fire work”.

Here are some results of firing, we reached 1230 °C and the total firing time was 24 hours in the first attempt and 28 hours in the last attempt.