Marches Makers Festival Artist 2021
Jason Braham
My studio is in a 16th century farmhouse looking towards the Radnor Forest. I work at the wheel, inspired by British and European country ware as well as the “Leach School” with its Japanese links.
Pots are decorated when still on the wheel or when “leather hard”. For glazes I favour simple recipes of wood ash, clay and feldspar, which give a range of cool celadon greens.
In the salt kiln, vapour from salt cast into the fire boxes combines with silica in the clay bodies and slips to form a layer of glass, often with a rich, “orange-peel” surface.
My studio is in a 16th century farmhouse looking towards the Radnor Forest. I work at the wheel, inspired by British and European country ware as well as the “Leach School” with its Japanese links.
Pots are decorated when still on the wheel or when “leather hard”. For glazes I favour simple recipes of wood ash, clay and feldspar, which give a range of cool celadon greens.
In the salt kiln, vapour from salt cast into the fire boxes combines with silica in the clay bodies and slips to form a layer of glass, often with a rich, “orange-peel” surface.
