At Hatfield House hertfordshire. Had a conversation with Matthew Blakely about his rock based glazes. Could be a line of progression to...

So during the firing process I heated surrounding flint which shattered but gave revealed lovely shapes and colour. I also wondered about...

Well! Either the structure was not built well enough, or moisture got into the clay from the previous days storms or I heated the clay...

Sitting here on day two (second firing attempt) thinking about how acrid the smell of coal is as it burns. The taste of itmakes my mouth...

I used a fan and a leaf blower to try and increase the heat to reach a bisque ceramic temperature. The firing went quite high last night...

Came accross this imge today of paint layers taken at microscopic level. Opened lots of thought questions about material layering and...

After the rain over the last few days I have found water has penetrated the base and caused cracks and movement...not good as this could...

In order to keep the heat in I decided to use a process described by Jim Robison where a jacket of ceramic and cloth is used as a kiln...

Hope the core sample survives, I have set a fire in the hopefully it will dry a bit !

I had been thinking again about the rammed earth idea but also about positive and negative images. I remembered the cross rail digging...