Anita Harris studio

The Anita Harris Studio is a very small but developing new micro pottery based in Stoke on Trent

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Hi Everyone
Sorry I havnt had time to reply or do a bit of a write up re our Studio but have had some illness in the family and busy at work so not had much time. Thanks for all the nice comments will post some info soon. Great to see another very good site for collectors well done.
Anita H

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I am very excited by the first trials in a new stoneware venture,Anita would appreciate your feedback so please post your views here, good or bad.

dantheman wrote: no! one buys a drum of glaze,it may be a mix of chemical,metal oxide...well loads of things, potters have experimented with various compounds for thousands of years

Hi Dan and everyone
Thanks for your comments
Some of the glazes are ready made some we had to make up i am not particuarily good at the chemistry of glazes but I am good at knowing how to combine them to achieve good glaze effects. Nonetheless, I am still amazed at the results next trials are to get a ruskin type look,cant wait !
I will send Dan more pics as soon as we get the next trials out .
If anyone on this site can make our Open day Nov 8th we would love to see you we have Henry Sandon and Eric knowles has just called me to say he his bringing a coach party of 40 i am so excited !
Anita

skay wrote:

Does it ever go off? How long can you keep a drum of glaze? Why can't someone buy the recipe? Can't it be copied?

:sm3: :sm3: :sm3:

xx

Hi Skay
Yes glaze does go off and often does also it can start to form crystals and calcium deposits depending on the ingredients used,sometimes they can be remixed and lawned (sieved) and reused they can also go mouldy if in powder form, even if kept dry and they are very expensive. The best way to prolong the shelf life is to mix and sieve them regularly if they are already slopped up, as they can also set like concrete!
Hope this is a little help to you.
Anita

skay wrote:

Its not much

I presume then different glazes are known to make different colours / effects, so its where you place them and how you arrange and mix them? Are you never certain what's happened until later?

xx

Its all very complicated it depends on what goes into the glaze that gives the colour, also how thick you apply it on the pot,how you fire it in the kiln ,and at what temperature you fire to,whether you use gas or electric,the clay body it is applied too and so on. Copper in a glaze will make green, iron makes brown ,cobalt makes blue to name but a few. You can apply one glaze over another to create a different effect or colour and so on. If for instance you over fire cadmium red it will turn black and go very orange peely. Some glazes are soft therefore will run others are very stiff and stay in place ,
all of this depends on what goes into the glazes. Some glazes will blister then you can add quartz to help this and it all has to be measured and pint wieghted, and all this is just for starters!
Today though yo can buy ready made glazes from the hobby shop if you just want to do it as a hobby and not go into the chemistry of glazes!
Its experience of firing different glazes at different temperatures and placing in kilns that gets you to know how the different glazes work,for instance stoneware glazes are very high fired on a low fired body where as earthenware glazes are lower fired but the body is fired higher.
You can controll the firing pretty well and there are things you can use in the kiln such as bullers rings to tell you how the kiln is firing through out s you get to know your hot spots and cooler areas and place your pots accordingly smaller kilns have less ofn a spread in temperature.
Hope this helps a little
Anita

All purchased last November at the open day. Our stoneware candlesticks were first trial and fully signed. Mr Sandon Obliged too. Sharron

Hi
Not my cup of tea really but it could not be ignored !
Have I seen this colour combination of flambe, turquoise , orange and black before?

Would be grateful if anyone recognises it?  20cm long and some illegible/ part marks to the front feet

  Thanks

What she said!

she's the only one who could have made that

Hi
Please let me if I am right.
Is it Anita Harris pottery ??
Thanks

you are right