Page Pottery

These firey pots have a presence about them I love. Each with Raku Legend Robert Piepenburg’s Patina Glaze, which colorful flashes and metallic sand finish are hypnotic.
With much reluctance I have steered clear of this magnificent glaze beause the colors have a tendency to fade away. Like copper often does when it is re-oxidized, these pots fade and turn the same green as a cheap ring that stains your finger.

But while taking a Raku class from Raku Master Susan Phillips, she informed me of a way to hold onto these colors and prevent them from fading. We are currently doing experiments to make sure of their permanence; with much success so far. And the secret to keep these pots from fading is using the defloculant sodium silicate in a solution sprayed on and held at 100F for an hour. Please feel free to contact me for more information on this raku process.

As some of you may know, many of my pots are less than functional. Low fire ware (Barrel,Sagger,Raku) does not vitrify (become watertight).
Here are some pots I have been working on lately,that sure they function, but are just as crazy as I am. Some of these pots did not come out as I expected but in the words of the great potter Shoji Homada:

“Even a bad pot has some use, but with a bad painting, there is nothing you can do with it except throw it away”