Mino style bowl using 100% unprocessed Cameron clay from North Carolina, and a simple shino-like glaze. Woodfired @starworksnc.bsky.social #sado #chanoyu #茶碗 #茶の湯 #茶道 #woodfired pottery #woodfiredceramics #noborigamafired #shino #shinoglaze

Test piece from the last woodfire. On display at "The Dark Show" July 19 - August 23. www.starworksnc.org/starworks-ev... Firing a piece 10x its size in two weeks. Time at Starworks is passing fast. #ceramicart #ceramicsculpture #void #emptiness #thespacebetween #woodfiredceramics #starworksnc

For your consideration. Three of these will be submitted to the Kansas City Clay Guild Teabowl National. Help me select the three. #teabowl #chawan #teaceremony #tbn2025 #teabowlnational2025 #茶碗 #茶の湯

Raku-style bowl. "Dark Side of the Moon". Lots of mixed feelings about this one. #tea #teaceremony #chawan #matchawan #rakuchawan #raku #sadō #chanoyu #楽 #茶碗 #茶の湯

Teabowl. Black clay with wood ash nuka. Hand formed thick and carved. Thinking about which bowls I want to submit to the KC Clay Guild Teabowl National and this style seems right as it feels like my own. Interested in your thoughts. #tea #matcha #teabowl #chawan #茶碗 #teaceremony #chanoyu #茶の湯

I taught a Raku-style teabowl workshop these last two weekends. The result of a lot of clay testing, glaze formulation and learning the best way to fire our kiln. Much to my relief, the work paid off and each of the students' bowls came out great. #raku #kuroraku #rakujawan #chawan #teaceremony #茶碗

Kurinuki demo piece for my intermediate handbuilding class. If it resembles Satake or Matsuzaki, you wouldn't be wrong; I took some workshops with them. Fun glaze combo gives something Oribe-ish. More rabbit holes to explore. #kurinuki #handbuiltpottery #abstract #sculpture #pottersofbluesky

Intermission. I've been taking Ikenobo classes, so of course I made a container. #ikenobo #ikebana #shoka #flowerarranging #pottersofbluesky

Bowl-like-thing. Black clay thrown thick and carved. Tenmoku liner. Wood-salt fired. Looks like a chunk of basalt. Struggling to call this a teabowl because it would shred a chakin in a nanosecond, but as a sculptural piece, it works well. #tea #teabowl #chawan #chanoyu #sadō #teaceremony #茶碗 #茶の湯

Simple hand-formed teabowl with a shino-Iike glaze oversaturated with iron and bone ash. Iron is amazing for its range of colors and effects. #tea #teabowl #chawan #chanoyu #sadō #茶碗

Another textured teabowl. Same body, glaze and firing as the previous, but different location in the kiln. Instead of imparting a glossy sheen, the salt flashes the pot in a salmon pink. #tea #teabowl #chawan #teaceremony #woodfiredpottery #pottersofbluesky

Woodfired tenmoku-style bowl. At the time, I thought this a decent facsimile of the originals, but now it feels a bit heavy handed. That rim is so darn hard to get right. #tea #teabowl #chawan #tenmoku #teaceremony #woodfired #pottersofbluesky

Dojimari-gata (waist type) teabowl. Woodfired porcelaneous stoneware with an unglazed exterior. Beautiful range of colors from the wood ash and flame shadows. #teabowl #chawan well beyond #20pots #teaceremony #woodfiredpottery

Slip-textured and woodfired teabowl with crawling shino interior. See ALT text for more info! #chawan #teabowl #teaceremony #chanoyu #sadō #woodfired #woodfiredpottery #pottersofbluesky

Mino style teabowl, Shino type. Thrown thick, then shaved. Same glaze inside and out, but with different applications. #chadō #茶道 #chanoyu #茶の湯 #matchawan #chawan #teabowl #茶碗 #shinoglaze #pottersofbluesky #februarty

An older aka-shino style bowl. Hand-formed sandy stoneware. Richly textured glaze with yuzuhada (citrus skin) and suana (nest holes) created by course sand. #teabowl #chawan #teaceremony #chanoyu #sado #yuzuhada #suana

Hand-formed teabowl with iron saturate glaze. Wood fired in the Groundworks Art Lab anagama in 2022. A bit quieter than most. This one remains one of my favorites. #tea #teabowl #chawan #茶碗 #teaceremony #sadō #茶道 #chanoyu #茶の湯 #woodfiredpottery #pottersofbluesky

In keeping with the textural theme: hand formed and carved teabowl with iron saturate liner. This one found a life partner in the anagama, now separated and bearing the scars of loss. (I'm feeling emo today.) #tea #teabowl #chawan #teaceremony #chanoyu #sadō #woodfiredpottery #pottersofbluesky

Something a little different. Porcelaneous stoneware teabowl thrown thick and carved. Celadon liner. Wood-salt fired. #teabowl #chawan #teaceremony #pottery #ceramics #pottersofbluesky #woodfiredpottery

Hand-formed teabowl with slip texture and shino-like glaze. Wood+salt fired in the Groundworks Art Lab Bourry Box. This one went to the KC Clay Guild Teabowl National last year. #teabowl #teaceremony #chanoyu #sadō #chawan

Kuroraku-style bowl. Fired to 1100C, removed hot, and water quenched. Basalt glaze. The body remains light and insulating. Quenching the bowl results in the desired "thuck" when tapped with a tea scoop. #chawan #kuroraku #teabowl #chanoyu #teaceremony #sadō #pottersofbluesky #茶碗 #茶道 #茶の湯

Hand-formed teabowl with slip texture and shino-like glaze. Woodfired in the Groundworks Art Lab anagama. Wishing I still had this one, but happy knowing it's being loved by its new owner. #teabowl #teaceremony #chanoyu #sadō #chawan

Tanka-fired (in a sagar with charcoal) teabowl with shino-like glaze. Hand formed from iron bearing stoneware amended with fine sand. Unintentionally similar to Hon'ami Kōetsu's Fujisan. #teabowl #chawan #chanoyu #茶碗

Hand-formed teabowl with shino-like glaze. Woodfired in the Groundworks Art Lab anagama a few years ago. #teabowl #chawan #茶碗 #chanoyu #茶の湯 #sadō #茶道 #pottersofbluesky

Chōsen-Garatsu style bowl with iron saturate and white ash glazes. Wood-salt fired in the now defunct Groundworks Art Lab Bourry Box. I'm dying inside without access to a wood kiln. I'm dying inside due to current events also, but pottery helps. #teabowl #chawan #chosengaratsu #woodfiredceramics

Black clay teabowl. Hand-formed and carved. Wood-ash nuka glaze. Woodfired in the Big Magic anagama last fall. #tea #teabowl #matcha #chawan #sadō #chanoyu #茶碗 #茶の湯 #茶道 #woodfiredpottery #woodfiredceramics #anagamafired #nukaglaze #ashglaze

O-Ido style bowl. An experiment in clay body formulation and a glaze recipe translated from Michio Yasuda's site. The clay remains open and light. With water, the clay blooms, so this will develop a patina over time. #idoteabowl #teabowl #chawan #chanoyu #sadō #茶碗 #茶の湯

Hand-formed teabowl with shino-like glaze. Woodfired in the Cub Creek Foundation Jessiemonster noborigama. #teabowl #chawan #teaceremony #woodfiredpottery #sadō #茶碗 #shino #shinoglaze

Hand formed black clay teabowl with black slip texture. Shino-type glaze. Woodfired in our now dead anagama at Groundworks Art Lab. #chawan #teabowl #teaceremony #chanoyu #sadō #茶碗 #茶道 #茶の湯

The Philadelphia International Tea Bowl Exhibition was amazing. Deserved another 20 hours to really take it all in. What an amazing opportunity to see and handle these works. Super inspired. Thanks to Mark Tyson and the crew at the Community Arts Center for making this possible.

Anyone else going to the opening tonight? communityartscenter.org/philadelphia...

Woodfired teabowl, assembled from white and black clay bodies. I love the contrast between the blue-grey on one side and the orange flashing on the other. Reminds me of a desert sunrise. #teabowl #chawan #woodfiredpottery #nerikomi #茶碗 #pottersofbluesky

Mino-style teabowl, Shino-type. Fired in the Cub Creek Foundation "Jessiemonster" noborigama last spring. I didn't think much of it until a friend helped me see its subtle beauty. She is now its caretaker and I couldn't be happier knowing it lives with her now. #chawan #teabowl #chanoyu #woodfired

Hand-formed and carved teabowl in black clay with an iron saturate glaze. Woodfired in the Big Magic anagama. I make many styles of bowls, but with this, I feel something coalescing. A bit challenging to handle in temae, but it rewards in haiken. #teabowl #chawan #woodfiredpottery #chanoyu #sadō

Mino-style teabowl, Shino-type. Sandy white refractory clay and a feldspar+clay glaze. Woodfired in the Big Magic anagama. Very dramatic bowl, lots of fire-color and texture. #teabowl #chawan #抹茶碗 #sadō #chanoyu #woodfiredpottery #pottersofbluesky

Seto-guro style teabowl, pulled from the kiln at peak temp. A test piece for an upcoming teabowl workshop. Not technically hikidashi-guro as we fired to cone 1. Basalt glaze and mogusa-like clay. #tea #teaceremony #chawan #chanoyu #sadō #setoguro #hikidashi #hikidashiguro #茶碗 #茶の湯 #茶道

Hand-formed teabowl with contrasting "dobe" slips and celadon liner. Wood-fired in the Cub Creek Foundation anagama. #tea #teabowl #chawan #chanoyu #sadō #茶碗 #茶道 #茶の湯 #woodfiredpottery #pottery #ceramics #pottersofbluesky

Hand-formed and carved teabowl. Dark clay with a wood-ash "nuka" glaze. #teabowl #chawan #茶碗 #matcha #teaceremony #茶の湯 #茶道 #nuka #nukaglaze

Tanka fired teabowl with shino glaze and white oak chashaku. #chawan #teabowl #chanoyu #chadō #sadō #chashaku #茶碗 #茶杓

Hand formed and carved teabowl. Mixed clay with a wood ash "nuka" glaze. Woodfired in the Big Magic anagama. #teabowl #chawan #teaceremony #pottery #ceramics #woodfiredpottery #nuka

Hand-formed yakishime teabowl. #chawan #teabowl #yakishime #teaceremony #chanoyu