“EVER TRIED”

I won’t say this is a particularly exciting picture but it is what I am currently up to. Considering the time of year, the studio is a bit chilly and in the mid-50s and there aren’t a lot of orders so this tends to be the time I spend working on tests. First and foremost, I glazed up a handful of pots that needed to be glazed and set those aside and then began making up a group of 25 tests, some new and a few retests of older glazes with new materials. Of these tests, all will be put on stoneware, porcelain and small batch sandy clay pods to see what I get, in turn most of these will be tested with the group of existing glazes I use as well as trying out the new glazes in various combos, this process yields the greatest variety if not successes, that is statistically (?) possible.    

As cliché as this may sound, this has been my pathway to discovery; “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail better.” Samuel Beckett