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Willey Furnace Pottery
Model hen 27cm wide x 27cm high
Contact Details
Address
Willey Furnace Pottery2 Swan St
Broseley
Shropshire
TF12 5HW
Name
Elspeth SoperPhone
01952 885759 or 07790 347007
Upcoming Events
Mon Aug 30, 2010 - Mon Aug 30, 2010
For more events see the Calendar.
Designer and maker of decorated earthenware and stoneware
The earthenware is made out of red clay & is decorated using coloured slips (liquid clay) often built up in painted layers over a poured or dipped base colour. The line is usually scraffito (scratched through the slip to the dark colour of the pot clay.) The pots are raw-glazed (thus dispensing with a bisque firing) using a transparent or a honey glaze & then fired in a gas kiln to around 1120C. The non-functional fowl models are built up in coils on top of a thrown base & are decorated & glazed in the same way.
The stoneware is also raw-glazed using an ash glaze (using ash from the pottery wood stove) or a shino glaze, & is fired in a reducing gas kiln to around 1260C.
I occasionally make large stoneware figures built up by coils, using crank clay.
The pots I make are very rooted in pots made in the past which I love. These include English medieval pottery & later slipware, & European slipware, most especially Hungarian "peasant" pottery.
I sometimes make hangings which combine clay with other materials - wood, leather, string, feathers. These reflect my interest in Native North American arts & cultures.