Category: Ceramics

Two irregular plates in earthenware splattered or striped with granite grey glaze.

Six small pinch bowls and two candle – or led – pots made from Halsall earthenware clay.

A medium sized lamp made in flagon form, in earthenware clay.

Three small lamps made from the earthenware clay from Halsall.

A range of earthenware flagons with minimal glazing in granite grey.

The clay was dug out when my old friend Cliff was putting in new drains for an extension in his house in Halsall near Omskirk.  He brought me five bags of dirty, stony, sticky dark reddish brown mud which over several years I refined and built a small earthenware collection. These pots, and some more on subsequent pages, represent the final products using this clay. They are all going on exhibition at the Northern Star in Clitheroe later this year.

Using a medium textured black clay this flattened bottle form has matt blue and white glaze dribbles along the spine

Textured stoneware, the first coated with a heavy layer of iron oxide with a copper and matt white glaze on the neck, the second with copper, cobalt and iron oxides under the matt white glaze.

Textured stoneware clay with a matt white glaze over predominantly cobalt oxide with a little iron.

Small flagons with a matt white glaze over iron and copper oxides.

£65

Textured stoneware clay with a matt white glaze over cobalt – and some iron – oxide.