Mountain Glade
Mountain Glade is my oldest color group and is based on an oriental style celadon glaze. (Celadons are iron-green glazes and were developed by the Chinese to imitate jade.) This combination is my long term best seller and I have been using it since 1981.
Below is a galley of pieces in Mountain Glade.
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In Mountain Glade I take advantage of the transparency of the celadon to build up layers of slip and glaze. (Slip is liquid clay.) I begin by flowing on color below the glaze, like a watercolor, then add layers of trailed glazes under and over the base celadon. When the glazes melt in the final firing, the result is a surface that can have amazingly depth. Some of the best pieces look almost as if you could plunge your hand down into them as if they were some imaginary pool.
Handbuilt, stoneware, rectangular platter with twisted handles, 10in x 14in.
This platter is a great example of Mountain Glade at its best. Below is a cookie jar in porcelain. The whiteness of the porcelain really shows off the transparency of the glaze.
Wheel-thrown, porcelain, footed cookie jar, 9in tall.