Spareness

When we started our studio, the first and fundamental inspiration I drew from woodfired pottery was to strip my work of surface decoration. I chose to work in a white clay with a gas-fired clear glaze. As my glaze work evolved I added layers, obtaining depth and variation by irregularly applying a crackled white slip and a thin celadon glaze to a light colored clay body. My anagama woodfired work proceeded in parallel, recentering my vision towards spareness, always exhilarating me with the unlimited results achievable with a restrained palette of clay, color and roughened form.