Page Pottery

Much of my time lately has been devoted to making pots for others. So it’s nice to make the kind of pottery I like. This mostly involves the Raku firing method. Raku roughly translates from Japanese into ‘pleasure,enjoyment,or at ease’. Taking pleasure and being at ease while creating my work becomes apart of each of these pots. More on this and other methods of firing soon to come.

Me and Kristen have made our first series of crematory urns. This collection of stoneware cremation urns is our first large wholesale project. I feel so fortunate to be able to make an income from such personally satisfying pots. To be able to do this with Kristen,I think brings us and our love of making pottery closer together. Larger single urns are around 210sq inches. The partial or pet urns are as small as 1 sq inch. Much more will be done in this area in the future, as long as people keep dying for these urns.

So after exploring many different ways of firing my pots, I am still in love with those that are decorated with the raw flame. This 55 gallon barrel once held concentrated apple juice. Now it is a downdraft kiln with endless possibilities of low fire fun. With a 15 foot chimney that pulls smoke and flame down through the kiln painting the pots with blushes of black and red. Kristen and I spent an afternoon and less than 50 bucks to make alternative low firing magic.