After the last reduction firing, and with lessons learned, I prepared a little more thoroughly and carried out a second reduction firing at Bath-Spa Sion Hill Campus last Tuesday. The results were far more successful and extremely interesting. Tutorial input at the college from Luke Haslam-Jones with expert glaze advise and a really inspiring tutorial with Tana West

Beach clay tenmoku (cone 9-10 reduction)

Attempts towards Chun glaze – using David Fry recipes

Creating beach clay slips…. Should have dried the clay and slaked it!

Loaded gas kiln

(a third year student from the Royal College) are helping me move forward with plans for projects that I need to complete in June; specifically the Creative Sparks internal Bath-Spa project and presentation of our final idea and work so far towards the Holburne Project exhibition (likely to be for October).