#ash glazes

[findlight]

Yunomi by Phil Rogers, 1951 - 2020

[buyandlove-studiopottery]

British Made Studio Pottery Coffee Pot, Ceramics UK

A fine hand thrown pottery stoneware coffee pot with quality brown gold ash glaze veined rivulets running down the whole body of pot. This i

[rebeccachesney]

Six of the ash glazed tiles i made during my project in Darmstadt have been permanently installed in the woods there. They are each placed under the plant from which the ash glazes were made.

Above is Acacia and Black Cherry. There is also a tile for Japanese Knotweed, Canadian Goldenrod, Douglas Fir and Tree of Heaven.

[rebeccachesney]

Here are some of my ash glazed tiles after being fired in the kiln. They all came out really nice - beautiful gentle colours and patterns, some glossy and some flakey. I really loved seeing the results of the two weeks of work: collecting plants and drying them for a few days in the heat (it was really hot each day reaching 38 degrees on most days); burning the plants and sieving the ashes; making hand made tiles and using the ashes to glaze them. 

The tile above is Douglas Fir.

[rebeccachesney]

After burning the dried plant species i collected the ashes and used it with water to glaze handmade tiles. The tiles were then fired in the kiln outside on the site nears the woods in Darmstadt. Because of time constraints we were only able to do one firing with the glazes - i’d really like to do more firings in the future and experiment more with the ashes and glazes.

[stonewareceramics]

Some ash glazes drying. They are all raw glazes so hopefully they will stick. Experimenting with some barley straw ash which makes a fairly runny white glaze by itself, also using some ash from the fireplace.

[marijceramics]

Ash Glaze tests

single ash reduction fired results

Mari Jones

2014

[totallyplastered]

http://www.mainstreetartsfest.org/experience-main-st./the-art/artists/rob-wiedmaier1 I found this on the web. It looks like he uses ash glazes and either fires in gas or electric 

— thebrownpottery

Thank you! Ash glazes? That sounds super cool. Yet another thing I want to try.

Argh! I wish there was somewhere I could just go and learn non-stop about ceramics, clay, firing processes, for five to ten years. I keep hopping from class to class with months or years in-between so that I lose touch with what I've learned and never quite reach a level where I feel I know what the heck I'm doing.