Mary North and Brian Evans
Brian Evans and Mary North both studied Art at Bradford College as mature students. They completed degrees in Fine Art and Art and Design respectively and set up a pottery studio when they left college in 2004. It was then that they took up throwing seriously.
Time at the studio is split between exploring the techniques of wood firing and Raku firing. Wood firing produces beautiful pottery that has natural glaze effects caused by fly ash falling onto the pots. The forms and decorations are influenced by medieval pottery, however they fire to the much higher temperature of stoneware and they use Japanese glazes.
The Raku pottery is fired to 920°C, removed from the kiln while the glaze is still molten, and placed in a reduction chamber that contains sawdust. The sawdust ignites and burns producing carbon monoxide, an unstable gas which removes oxygen that is chemically bound to metal salts present in the glaze. This causes a metallic sheen of silver or copper to be produced on the surface of the pottery. The amount of colour left in the glaze and the amount of metal to which it is reduced varies depending on the length of time it is left in the sawdust.
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