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Stuart Houghton
Stuart trained in studio pottery at Birmingham College of Art and Design. His inspiration is from potters such as Mick Casson, and David Lloyd Jones, together with Shoji Hamada, a respected 20th century Japanese folk art ceramist.
Each piece of Stuart's work is hand made so there is an individuality but still retaining a style and theme. Stuart mainly uses porcelain, fired twice with the second firing to 1300 centigrade.
His challenge is to create interesting pieces to eat or cook with, and he describes his current work as "useful, friendly, generous, domestic porcelain pots".
The glazes that Stuart uses have their origins in history.
Celadon glaze, the beautiful pale green glaze originated in Korea in the 10-11th century, and from there moved into China. The Japanese imported southern China kiln techniques in early 17th century. Kyoyaki also learned celadon technique in 18th century. Famous potter Aoki Mokubei 17-18th century worked with the glaze and made pieces reminiscent of Chinese styles.
Tenmoku is a dark glaze with a surface that resembles oilspotting. It is comprised of limestone, feldspar and iron oxide. Faster cooling of the piece results in a blacker glaze.
Tenmoku takes its name from the 天目 (Mandarin: tiān mů; Japanese: ten moku;), the Heaven's Eye mountain temple in China where iron-glazed bowls were used for tea.
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