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D38
DescriptionIron khaki and blue/green crystalline glazes. Etching has created a satin matt surface on the body with a subtle ground that varies from pale green on the shoulder to near-white at the foot. The primary crystals are blue with complex growth...
D3V
DescriptionLarge primary crystals dominate on this variation of my iron gold glaze. The ground is transparent on the body with a speckling of darker secondary crystals. DetailsCode: D3V Year: 2025 Height: 190mm Porcelain: TP132D3V. Green Clough Wood, Holme Chapel....
D2T
Description Iron khaki and dark blue crystalline glazes feaure in this example of a new addition to my slipcast range of stoppered bottles. The stopper is ground to give an airtight seal. DetailsCode: D2T Year: 2025 Height: 275mm without the stopper, 335 mm...
D1X
DescriptionIron red and pale green and tan crystalline glazes. The primary crystale are a delicate green with holographic structure. The ground is complex: opaque cream on the neck tending to transpoarent amber towards the foot with patches of pink blush and all set...
D2K
DescriptionA small bowl form made from one of my custom porcelain bodies and featuring my pale blue and tan crystalline glaze. The primary crystals have concentric growth rings and a burgundy fringe. The ground varies from opaque near the rim with a pink blush to...
BKK
DescriptionThis older piece, from 2015 features one of my matt crystalline glazes. The surface is a satin matt, warm tan in the ground with an even covering of small grey/blue primaries. I will be experimenting with this type of glaze again soon. DetailsCode:...
CX4
DescriptionSecondary crystals fill the ground everywhere except on the neck. Each of the sparse primary crystals are a vivid blue with concentric growth rings. A narrow ring of burgundy separates each primary from the gorund. Unique in my output, this piece...
CZL
DescriptionThree glaze firings produced an unusual effect of supressing secondary crystals in thie piece. The ground is a pale amber with vertical striations. The primary crystals are a vivid blue with holographic structure. A second glaze firing is risky, more often...
D1G
DescriptionA minor alteration to the composition of my golden crystalline glaze has altered the colouf of the ground. The vivid primary cyrstals are get on a complex semi-opaque background with colours ranging from cream to dusky pink. DetailsCode: D1G Year:...
D1K
DescriptionMid blue crystals on a ground filled with secondary crystals. The ground is satin rather than gloss contrastnig with the vivid primaries. This variant of my mid blue glaze works well with this recent variation of my custom porcelain body, number 122....
BE5
DescriptionBanded mid-blue primary crystals float on an opaque ground set with secondary crystals. DetailsCode: BE5 Year: 2016 Height: 210 mm Porcelain: Audry Blackman.BE5. Cock Hill Wood. Sunlight.BE5. Neck detail. BE5. Quarry near Green's Clough. Sunlight with...
CS6
DescriptionThe vivid primary crystal have subtle shaded of blue and green with burgundy and blue banded centres. The gound is opaque and set with tiny secondary crystals grading from pink on the neck to cream near the foot. This is one of my ball clay based custom...
CDA
DescriptionDusky blue primary crystals with pronounced burgundy growth rings sit on a contrasting cream ground, opaque with a fine speckling of secondary crystals.DetailsCode: CDA Year: 2021 Height: 200 mm Porcelain: Audry Blackman.CDA. Broad Ing, Towneley. Sunlight...
CZH
DescriptionThe neck is a has deep red tones speckled with small orange crystals. On the body primary crystals dominate. The centres are banded with a burgundy colour that complements the iron red of the neck before fading to a delicate pale green. DetailsCode: CZH...
CVP
DescriptionBlue and purple crystalline glaze. The blue primary crystals have vivid structure displayed well in strong sunlight. The ground is semi-opaque set with tiny purple crystals.DetailsCode: CVP Year: 2024 Height: 245 mm Porcelain: RoyaleCVP. From Black Scout...
CYB
DescriptionSparkling iron aventurine and golden crystalline glazes. This variant of my aventurine glaze has a different type of interaction. There is a transition from the sparkling crystals on the neck through to the gound of the zinc silicate glaze taking in darker...
CHT
DescriptionAn example of my mid blue and purple crystalline glaze dominated by secondary crystal development. The primary crystals have strongly defined growth rings. The ground is largely mid blue, all formed from small crystals. The purple regions are sparse but...
CZ2
DescriptionSoft blue primary crystals set on a complex opaque ground with iron khaki on the neck. This glaze works well with spring bluebells. On this wintery day, the soft hum of insects on a warm spring afternoon in woodland carpeted with bluebells seemed far away....
CUH
DescriptionIron aventurine and green gold zinc silicate crystalline. This together with CUS use a variation of my gold and green crystalline glaze that produced too dark an effect out of the firing. Etching the glaze with hydrochloric acid has lightened the colour and...
CNE
DescriptionA darker version of my green and gold glaze. Here the tones in the crystals are those of gold and bronze. Under normal lighting they are subdued, but powerful light such as the direct sunlight in these images brings out the depth of colour and vivid...