About My Glazes

Ceramic glazes are stelar for ceramics. They literally dress the pieces, for beauty, performance and protection, making them water proof and scratch resistant.

I fell in love with ceramic glazes after my apprenticeship with Maishe Dickman. His glaze palette was vibrant, using the classic Tenmoku and Bernard Leach’s White glazes along with vibrant yellows, lavender and turquoise glazes, all fired in reduction.

Once my apprenticeship was finished, I returned home determined to replicate his approach for cone 6 oxidation. I started experimenting with glaze recipes gathered from the several potters I had apprenticed to, printed books and, later, the internet. One day, near despair, searching the internet, I found Mathew and Rose Katz who where just about to get started with their online teaching program. This was a game changer: I joke with him and tell him it was like having been living in a dark cave and then having someone bring in a light bulb. After learning from him, I could see and understand the system in an exciting way.

Imagine you like to bake and instead of following the recipes you understand, you take all the ingredients and you just come up with your own recipes based on a desired outcome – very empowering!

My colored glazes have become central to my work. They are one of the reasons why people find the work unique. I like to keep researching – either for my own delight or for custom projects – its also the case that materials change with time, so there are usually a few test tiles in the kiln either for color development or quality control.

To the right are the colors we use for our studio’s production. We can develop others based on client’s needs.

An article about this research was published in Yale Engineering’s 2025 Magazine, and can be found here

Below are the different stages of the eggshell processing.

True, clay is everywhere: but it is still precious. We constantly disrupt natural sites in order to access it. It has to be processed and transported. It is bagged in plastic. And these environmental harms are difficult or impossible to avoid. We are very conscious with our clay usage: we reclaim everything, from throwing slip to cutting and trimming scraps, and mix them into new batches of clay. That way we keep our clay waste to its bare minimum without compromising the quality of our work.

We only purchase paper goods for our packaging needs. And have implemented a system where family and friends bring us their used shipping materials so we can use them for our packaging.