Whether you use these for serving mashed potatoes or salad, or just mixing a big ol’ batch of Nestles Toll House choc chip cookies, these bowls are work horses. They’re widely serviceable and beautiful all at once. I make them in basically four sizes for the greatest range of uses.
They’re all textured in one way or another and painted with dry brushed slips made here in my studio from a palette of colors I developed over the years using both heavy metals and commercial stains.
Technical Info
Technical Info My functional pottery is made from an earthenware recipe that I developed while I was a graduate student in Nova Scotia. For many years after grad school, I glaze fired to cone 04 which is the convention in this country. In 2005 while I was doing my residency at the Australian National University in Canberra, the other potters there innocently asked, “Why do you glaze fire at ‘bisque’ temperatures?”. That was the first indication I’d ever had that cone 04 might be a suspect temperature to fire earthenware. But I brushed it off mostly because my practice with it was supported by US studio potter standards for terra cotta. Shortly after returning to the States, I offered a workshop at Arrowmont School of Art and Craft in Gaitlinburg, TN. There, fate gave me a GIANT gift…one of my students in this handbuilding class was a ceramic engineer. Go figure. These folks typically never show up in these sorts of classes. But Karla Wagner is anything but “typical”. She and I forged a professional relationship and friendship from that time onward. Karla helped me see the virtue of ‘buying’ temperature for my earthenware. She and I worked together to formulate a satin clear glaze and move my firing temperature up to cone 1-2. All this just to say, these pots are strong, strong, strong. When you knock on them they ring like porcelain. They can go in the microwave without heating up their handles (which happens to lower fired pots). They’re in and out of my dishwasher daily. They even have less than .5% absorption which means anything I make for the garden can live outside in the frozen NE winters w/out breaking.
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Whether you use these for serving mashed potatoes or salad, or just mixing a big ol’ batch of Nestles Toll House choc chip cookies, these bowls are work horses. They’re widely serviceable and beautiful all at once. I make them in basically four sizes for the greatest range of uses.
