Fanatics, enthusiasts and collectors: happy ceramics hunting in 2021!

Hunting season has been opened, not a bloodthirsty but the cheerful ceramic hunt. On the hunt for new colors, shapes and objects. Looking for new techniques, materials and processes. The journey of discovery into the present, past and future.

The hunting grounds of the ceramics fanatic is not limited to the physical world, but also explores the limits of our imagination, innovation and creativity. It’s not a competition, it’s a collective study. A project of ceramics and glaze theorists, suppliers, makers, enthusiasts and collectors (and I’ll probably forget a few).

Cheerful Ceramics Hunt in 2021

The ceramics hunt is a joint task to pass our culture on to the future ceramics fanatics. I’m happy to do my bit. And I personally appreciate myself lucky that there are so many ceramics enthusiasts who support this.

I therefore wish everyone a happy ceramic hunt in 2021! (and all the years that come after that).

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The best ceramic glaze book of the year

What is the best ceramic glaze book of this year? If you ask me, that’s “Special Effect Glazes” by Linda Bloomfield. This is the first book that explains how to analyze (special) glazes using the UMF and plotting it on the Stull Chart. The author also explains how you can do this easily: by using Glazy.org.

This is the modern way to discover the “mechanism” behind the glaze. In other words “what makes this glaze tick“. She is not the first to analyze glazes in this way. Matt Katz of Ceramic Materials Workshop in particular is the driving force behind this contemporary view. But he hasn’t (yet) written a book about it.

Ceramic Glazes Test Tiles 2

In short, as far as I am concerned , this is the book to show 21st century ceramists the way to that new manner of discovering ceramic glazes.

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New Ceramic Turtles Born on the wheel

We all deserve ceramic turtles. Unique craft figurines. A happy note during the dark days before Christmas. A small present during the 2nd corona wave. At least I was ready for that. And we can always use a little ceramic friend.

Anyway, I thought it would be nice to spin some turtles on the wheel and share the process. Yes, these gouty reptiles are born on the wheel Every turtle is unique. And not only the turtle is unique, also the finish is exclusive.

Ceramic turtles terra

Curious how I make them? Then read on…

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