Carola Damrow mainly produces utility ceramics made of porcelain or stoneware, which are exclusively thrown on the potter's wheel.
I mainly produce utility ceramics from porcelain or stoneware, which is exclusively thrown on the potter's wheel. The stoneware is glazed with a copper glaze, which develops a vivid red glaze through oxygen reduction in the gas kiln firing. The process can only be controlled to a limited extent, so that the colors change from matt dark red to an almost transparent shiny light red.
Opening the kiln is always an exciting, sometimes surprising and sometimes disappointing moment. I also turn the porcelain on the potter's wheel, which requires much more patience and sensitivity than turning stoneware clay. I give the porcelain a delicate, restrained decoration and glaze it with a transparent glaze. It is also fired in a gas kiln, but in an oxygen-rich or neutral atmosphere and opening the kiln is less exciting.
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