When you formulate a new ash glaze for high-fire oxidation firings and it looks lovely, but somehow it is all on the bottom! Haha. A little adjustment is needed. I did use a drip tray anticipating this. And it did its job. #glazes #pottery #ceramics #cone10

Some small mixing/pouring bowls from the last gas firing. I dropped and smashed the last one, duh. Nice for omelettes and dressings, or matcha. #ceramics #pottery

I used this little pouring bowl to test a new shino glaze that doesn't use lithium or spodumene (which are very expensive these days due to the Li-ion battery industry taking it all). It's a whiter white than many shinos which are often kinda grey white. #ceramics #pottery

I have tried various recipes for the famous Japanese nuka glaze. It's a white that is traditionally made with rice husk ash, which I can't get. Using silica and other ingredients instead, this is by far the best attempt yet. I formulated it myself using an analysis of RH ash. #ceramics #pottery

Not my normal style but quite a nice bottle from the recent firing. Two ash glazes. The base glaze has been scorched by the flame and gone semi-volcanic. One of those unexpected gifts from the kiln. More often the kiln kicks you hard in the ass, hehe. C10 gas redux #ceramics #pottery

My first attempt at making a tea bowl with inclusions of feldspar in the clay. It doesn't make throwing easy! There's shino glaze inside the bowl, and a mineral wash and sprinkles of wood ash outside. I think I am pretty close to the wood-fired look (but in a gas kiln). #ceramics #pottery

The large moon jar I showed when still wet clay is fired and I couldn't be happier. It's got a nice shino glaze and sifted wood ash over the shoulders that have produced green drips like you can get in a wood firing. It's up on my Etsy now. Sadly I still can't sell to the US. #ceramics #pottery

I had a really good gas firing last night. I lucked out with maybe the last mild evening of the year. Winter is coming... Here's one of my recent agate ware tea bowls (thrown with layers of different clays) covered in a wood ash glaze. You can just make out the clay beneath. #ceramics #pottery

In good reduction towards the end of my last gas firing of the year. Aiming for 1280-1300C Hoping to get some nice pots out. And I have some new glazes that I'm hopeful for... #ceramics #pottery

Probably the biggest pot I've made. Thrown in two parts then attached and rounded out to this almost moon jar form. #ceramics #pottery

Another adventure in throwing with layered mixed clays, called agate ware traditionally. Still learning how best to do it to make it interesting and not add a bunch of bubbles between the layers that make throwing a nightmare 😅 #ceramics #pottery

First time playing with agate ware. You roughly mix two different clays together and throw the pot as usual to leave this marble effect. #pottery #clay #ceramics #teabowl

Just had to cancel a pottery order to the US because a) Trump did away with the tariff exemption on small items, b) my post office is not shipping to the US because of the tariffs, and c) the US is apparently destroying packages at customs. What a f*cked up situation. #pottery #ceramics #art

The finished pottery paddle I made on my CNC machine today. I need to file the handle a bit more round. But it's pretty nice. #ceramics #pottery #cnc #woodworking

Today I have been making a pottery paddle with the CNC machine I bought for just this purpose 2 years ago! These are used to imprint a pattern on the outside of pots by giving them a slap with the paddle. www.instagram.com/p/DPq-dRMjOO1/ #ceramics #pottery #potterytools #cnc #woodworking

A rutile blue yunomi tea cup that got a bit oxidised on one side. It's still pretty. No blue pigments are used in this glaze. Due to chemical/optical magic, rutile (a titanium-rich mineral) forms blue in the presence of iron. #ceramics #pottery #keramik #keramika #poterie #yunomi #tea

A tea bowl for matcha or whichever beverage you most enjoy. Inspired by Japanese chawans. Shino glazed/reduction fired. I love making these because you have full permission to throw the idea of symmetrical perfection out of the window. (Not the tea bowl, though!) #pottery #ceramics #tea #chawan

It's hard to get electric oxidation glaze effects that I love as a gas reduction firer. But sometimes I get something that is close. This is an ash-based glaze over an iron tenmoku fired to cone 6. Varying the thickness of the top layer makes quite a big difference (1st pic was thinner). #ceramics

These mixing/pouring bowls came out pretty great. A wood ash-based chun glaze over a tea dust tenmoku glaze. Fired in gas reduction to cone 10/1300ish. #ceramics #pottery #glazes #clayart #kitchen #cooking

Etsy AI be like: Let me rewrite your item titles so they make absolutely no sense.

Tyelenol?! What about nanoplastics?????. "...researchers found that, on average, a liter of bottled water included about 240,000 tiny pieces of plastic. About 90% of these plastic fragments were nanoplastics."

A simple tea cup, but the things that went into making it just so are not so simple. Yellow iron glaze, high fired in gas reduction to 1300C. Speckled stoneware clay. It's quite big. Will hold a mug's worth of liquid. #ceramics #pottery #tea

The second of my faux wood fire bottles from the last gas firing. Again I sieved dry wood ash from my stove over the top and shoulder, and fired it in reduction to 1300C. It's over my regular shino glaze that gives creamy white to rusty red. #ceramics #pottery #shinoglaze

Bit of a wild one from last night's gas firing. But it looks wood fired, right? It's shino glaze on groggy black clay with wood ash sifted heavily over the top. The ash melts into a glaze at the very high temperatures. Cone ten/1300C #pottery #poterie #ceramics #keramika #keramik #ashglaze

The US tariffs have almost killed my Etsy store. Traffic is way down, as are sales. I cannot even ship to the US. To try and get things moving, I've dropped my prices - now dead cheap for hand-thrown, unique, reduction-fired pottery. Maybe you'd like to have a look. www.etsy.com/shop/DanPalm...

I trimmed the pots from the last post. They are drying now before their first firing. #ceramics #pottery

I haven't really been making pots for the summer because Trump's tariffs pretty much killed my Etsy store. And I thought what's the point. But now, I'm just making because I want to! Here's a nice loose 4lb bottle vase and some pouring bowls I threw today. #ceramics

I'm currently in Dalmatia for a holiday, and have been awed by the large and spectacular crickets you can see if you head out into nature. Plus they are often sitting on some interesting plant I've never seen before. I live in Zagreb but it's another world here. #insects #Croatia #wildlife

I started throwing #bottles in the last few days. I love curvy forms. The largest was the most clay I have ever thrown. Centring the 4kg lump was hard (clay needed to be softer). It ended up about 30cm high but has a lot of volume and a pleasing form. #pottery #ceramics

An amazing storm cloud at sunset in Zagreb a few nights ago