Fire Clouds are the markings made on the surface of vessels in open firing, a memory or trace of the process of firing. “As the potter talks about fire, as a sailor talks of the sea. The reason is simple. The potter proposes, the fire disposes. The potter moulds, the fire paints. The potter can only give the fire colours, give it air or smother it… As the kiln is fired, the colours change, become and turn, lighten or darken, become other colours”. (Robert de la Sizeranne)
Artists Mollie Bosworth, Cathy Keys, Shireen Talibudeen, Peter Thompson, Jenny Valmadre and Robyn Whyte have crafted ceramics that, like other artforms, have the power to move, inspire and inflame; to calm, sooth and placate; to be representational or abstract, though at the same time evoke a feeling of sensuous possession for the viewer.
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