Dove and Toulouse
These were fired in a gas kiln to stoneware temperatures, about 1200c and represent the move away from an electric kiln as power rates soared. Times were changing, material costs were rising steeply and soon the GFC would wipe away all the small galleries I depended on to retail my work. Glaze colours tend to be muted in a gas firing unless reducing is done, and local laws on contained fires were changing. Many pottery outlets and artisans were facing extinction-there’s a whole history yet to be found on the lost world of community pottery in regional Australia.