Description
King Emperor Penguin – Ceramic raku fired
19cm Tall
This penguin is slip decorated with bright colour stains, white crackle glaze and black stain on bare clay giving different texture surfaces and making them bright, fun and tactile.
I make these in our workshop alongside the river Tamar in the Tamar Valley on the Devon & Cornwall borders
The images shown are general pictures of each sculpture, the crazing varies on every piece, it’s the unique nature of Raku.
Raku is a firing technique, adapted from ancient Japanese ceremonial tea bowl firings. A small number of pieces are put into a small propane fired handmade kiln and taken up to just over 1,000 degrees centigrade, each piece is taken from the kiln red hot and put in sawdust which instantly combusts, careful timing in the air will give bigger heavier random crazing as it cools. There is something deeply satisfying about the unpredictability of raku, how every piece emerges unique, a kind of controlled spontaneity. The combination of intense heat, rapid cooling, and organic materials gives raku its distinctive woodsmoke smell.
RAKU IS NOT WATER OR FROST PROOF SO NOT SUITABLE FOR KEEPING OUTDOORS
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