Much of my work combines the coarse finish of the stoneware with oxidised iron: clay and iron - The two primal materials wich, worked with fire, have been fundamental to art and culture since the dawn of time.

Much of my work combines the coarse finish of the stoneware with oxidised iron: clay and iron - The two primal materials wich, worked with fire, have been fundamental to art and culture since the dawn of time.

The red is a red copper in reduction: it means that it is obtained from the place impoverished of oxygen, in the oven during the fusion. If the enamel would be cooked in a oxidative place would become light green, cooked in reduction becomes dark red : I call it "wine red" but among ceramists it is known as "ox blood".

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