Other people's pots and stuff

We do buy from other potters, actually I can't grasp how you can copy someone else's ceramics. It's just technically impossible. Someone else's hands, clay, glaze and firing, this combination is so unique each time, that I have trouble reproducing even my own creations. So when I see pottery I like, of course I buy it.
Plates by Martine and Claude NOREK:


Salt shakers in form of pears and tomatoes and dainty saucers by Jean-Marie DELAHAYE (Villaines-sous-Malicorne):



And a family of mugs by Marie-Paule VERPLANKEN:

New clay

I've been working with new chamotte clay, it's blackish brown, but after firing becomes sandy yellow and pink. The cups are a bit thick to my taste, so I won't be continuing, but it was fun making small vases and plates with this clay.

Two white glazes, one with Zn, that becomes grey on this clay and the other with Ti, that gives a rustic yellow beige.







Here presented on handspun fabrics from Atelier Tissage et Tradition. 

Sun-kissed cups

I reduced slightly the beverage capacity, but they are still cups for generous servings.

And experimented with handles. These are my favourite:



and some citrus squeezers:

Sprinkled blue

I have started using a new clay (GB8 from Solargil) in our workshop, all thanks to Herta, and the result is much lighter cups!
And I tried new color combinations, but I think I'll stick with the white. In pottery fairs it doesn't look appealing, but it works best on the table.




Some white Ti cups of the same batch

And jugs.

Cosmic glaze

This weekend we went to a pottery fair in Dourdan. About twenty ceramists showcased their work in the old market hall, just in front of the castle, a temporary home (or prison) to many historical figures.
We bought two lovely vessels, by Lluis Soler.


His work makes me think about constellations and nebulas, drinking tea becomes an outer space adventure :)

In the mood for yellow

We have a new glaze at the atelier, a big thanx to Veronique. And it is wonderfully yellow. The best color for those short winter days, not that we don't have any sunshine, we do, and it's getting more intense day by day. But there is a lot of grey in the sky as well....

This was taken on the beach in Jurmala, Latvia. A beautiful but a bit chilly place, especially at this time of the year, so wool tights are a must there.

creamy white

Experiments with form.

turquoise

This cup is the very reason I started throwing. I wanted it so much (but bought a bowl instead) that I just had to do it.

But this is the closest in colour that I could get... very rough and grainy.

So when I saw Markus Klausmann this year at the Journées de la Céramique, I fulfilled that wish on the spot =)

The inside is mesmerizing! Makes me think of raspberry jam smears.

And he makes beautiful teapots. There was one at the show that was an immediate love for me, but not for my purse. Will be looking for that intricate branch to make a handle now...
This is of his older work.