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  • "Untitled"

    Handbuilt grogged stoneware, coil construction, lichen surface, carbon reduction

    h:9" x w:6"

    2009  (private collection)

    830,960
    Not For Sale
  • "Untitled"

    Handbuilt grogged stoneware, coil construction, lichen surface, carbon reduction

    h:5" x w:6"

    2009  (private collection)

    730,960
    Not For Sale
  • "Untitled"

    Handbuilt grogged stoneware, coil construction, lichen surface, carbon reduction

    h:8" x w:6"

    2011  (private collection)

    795,960
    Not For Sale
  • "Untitled"

    Handbuilt grogged stoneware, coil construction, lichen surface

    h:10" x w:8"

    2011  (private collection)

    738,960
    Not For Sale
  • "Untitled"

    Handbuilt grogged stoneware, coil construction, lichen surface, carbon reduction

    Refired in oxidation, altered with underglaze

    h:9.5" x w:7"

    2011  (private collection)

    740,960
    Not For Sale
  • "Armadillo Hiding"

    Handbuilt grogged stoneware, coil construction

    h:7” x w:12”

    2009  (private collection)

    869,960
    Price On Request
  • "Untitled"

    Handbuilt grogged stoneware, ocean driftwood, coil construction

    h:10" x w:11"

    2010  (private collection)

    945,960
    Not For Sale
  • "Untitled"

    Handbuilt raku clay, coil construction

    h:10" x w:9"

    2010  (private collection)

    790,960
    Not For Sale
  • "Untitled"

    Handbuilt grogged stoneware, coil construction

    h:13" x w:11"

    2009  (private collection)

    809,960
    Not For Sale
  • "Untitled"

    Handbuilt raku clay, coil construction

    h:10" x w:9"

    2009  (private collection)

    788,960
    Not For Sale
  • "Untitled"

    Handbuilt grogged stoneware, coil construction

    h:11" x w:11"

    2009  (private collection)

    829,960
    Not For Sale
  • "Untitled"

    Handbuilt grogged stoneware, coil construction

    h:10" x w:8"

    2010  (private collection)

    821,960
    Not For Sale
  • "Untitled"

    Handbuilt stoneware, coil construction

    h:5" x w"5"

    2011  (private collection)

    800,960
    Not For Sale
  • "Untitled"

    Handbuilt grogged stoneware, coil construction

    h:6" x w:8"

    2010  (private collection)

    830,960
    Not For Sale
  • "Untitled"

    Handbuilt grogged stoneware, coil construction

    h:5" x w:4.5"

    2010  (private collection)

    724,960
    Not For Sale
  • Work in process: Hand-coiling and smoothing "Armadillo Hiding"
    1268,960
    Not For Sale
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RAKU & NAKED RAKU

There are several steps in the naked raku process. All of my work is hand-built and allowed to dry to leather-hard, then I burnish the surface and cover with thin layers of terra sigillata, allowing this to dry to "bone-dry". The work is then bisque fired. Next, the bisqueware is covered first with a slip, then with a clear crackle glaze. The slip is used as a barrier between the clay surface and the crackle glaze so that they will separate after firing.  The piece is then fired in a raku kiln to a point where its surface glaze starts to bubble (usually between 1400˚F to 1500˚F. At that point, the vessel is removed from the kiln and immediately placed in a reduction bin filled with combustibles, such as paper or sawdust, and covered. After several minutes, the vessel is removed from the bin and with the influence of water, the slip crackles away like an egg shell, exposing patterns where the smoke has penetrated cracks in the glaze, leaving behind irregular crack-like patterns on the clay surface. The vessel is then buffed with a thin layer of beeswax to finish.

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