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Ash Glazes Phil Rogers

Ash Glazes By Phil Rogers

Ash Glazes by Phil Rogers


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This guide first sketches the history of ash glazes. It then discusses the practicalities of collecting and testing wood ashes, how to make them into glazes and then use them to glaze your pots. It also looks at a group of international artists who use ash glazes on their work.

Ash Glazes Summary

Ash Glazes: Techniques and Glazing from Natural Sources by Phil Rogers

Fully updated and revised, with new photographs and glaze recipes, this is the third edition of this classic guide to ash glazes. Forever curious and eager to learn new things about ceramics, Phil Rogers constantly tinkered with clay bodies, glaze formulae and approaches to firing. This volume is his seminal work on transforming ash into glaze: an essential text for all potters and ceramicists with additional relevance today with its focus on prioritising the use of natural resources. Ash Glazes examines the practicalities of collecting and testing wood ashes, demonstrates the process of making them into glazes and offers a step-by-step guide to using them to decorate your pots. This edition, updated and revised by Hajeong Lee Rogers, is a celebration of pottery at its best. Starting with an introduction to the history of ash glazes, then moving on to a wide range of practical advice and methods, the book is enlivened by photographs of the work of potters from around the world, who use ash in colourful and imaginative ways. It provides true inspiration for working potters and delight for all those interested in contemporary ceramics.

Ash Glazes Reviews

The most useful and definitive guide to the various uses of wood ashes in glaze application. -- Mike Dodd, internationally acclaimed potter
Potters, young and old, will delight in the updates, and our continuing experiments and revelations will be fitting tributes to all that Phil and Hajeong have contributed to our field. -- Mark Hewitt, author of 'The Potter's Eye'

About Phil Rogers

Phil Rogers was one of Britain's leading potters and advocates for his craft. From his studio near Rhayader in Powys, Wales, he created work that drew on eclectic styles, from medieval German salt-glazed wares to 15th-century Korean porcelain. A passionate promoter of the use of natural materials in glazes, he is widely regarded as one of the giants of UK ceramics. His work is held by museums around the world, including the V&A, the British Museum and the Museum of Modern Ceramic Art in Japan. Hajeong Lee Rogers grew up in South Korea where she later studied crafts at Sungshin Women's University and won the National Award for Craft Art in 2005 for a large ceramic sculpture. Hajeong joined her husband Phil Rogers in Wales in 2011 and started working in her own studio, making tableware with a fusion of traditional Korean techniques and patterns influenced by William Morris. Her work is included in the Reeves Collection, Washington and Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Table of Contents

Introduction Preface to the Third Edition Foreword Author Preface A Brief History of Wood Ash Glazes The Growing Plant What is Wood Ash? Collecting and Preparing Wood Ash What are Glazes and How do they Work? Making Glazes Ash-like Glazes without Ash Potters' profiles Katherine Pleydell-Bouverie Terry Bell-Hughes Mike Dodd Lis Ehrenreich John Jelfs Dick Lehman Jim Malone Eric James Mellon Jim Robison John Thies Tom Turner Phil Rogers Showcase Ash Glaze Recipes Ash Analyses & Molecular Weights Glossary Bibliography Index Afterword

Additional information

NGR9781789940947
9781789940947
178994094X
Ash Glazes: Techniques and Glazing from Natural Sources by Phil Rogers
New
Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2023-08-31
192
N/A
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