Clay Man's Capsule
The thought of not opening the kiln occurred to me quite a few years ago and it took over a year to construct the sculpture and pottery that went in.
When I visit schools, the children run up to me calling out “clay man”. I was in high school when I worked for my teacher at his shop throwing planters and knew I wanted to be a potter from when I was 13. I’ve built three wood kilns at the Penryn Workshop, the Time Capsule, a one chamber salt, and a five chamber noborigama known as Big Mama.
The is a kiln with a front chamber for unglazed ware and a back chamber used more for glazed work. It’s been fired almost 100 times and has included the work of
