I make my pots borrowing the ideas from mediaeval techniques. For my firing, I use enormous amount of split wood. What I most enjoy is designing and building simple Anagama. I also design Raku kilns for Chawan (tea bowl).
Inspired by nature, Zen ideology, and Gorin (the Buddhist tantric elements of earth, water, fire, wind and sky).
your work is fabuloso. We are building an anagama, our first one in La Plata, Argenitna.
I was interested to see the entry about Svend Bayer. I bought one of his pots back in about 1994 for about £10 or so, maybe £15, from his studio in Devon. A beautiful small bowl with grey glaze inside, decorated with a Japanese influenced design of two fishes inside. It may have even be before 1994, as I was quite young and the bowl was the first piece of art I ever bought. My father has an art transport company (C’art Art Transport) and he was transporting Svend’s stuff. I’ve just spent the evening mending Svend’s bowl with superglue for about the third time. I keep accidentally breaking it – it’s v fragile, I think. It now looks a bit like a jigsaw but I still love it. I expect he sells stuff for a lot more now, but I can’t find anything online of his that looks like my fish bowl.