Ceramics by Joseph Lenartowicz
Individual hand-made ceramics thrown on a potters wheel.
There are lots of creative ways to use this Ikebana vase for some very inventive flower displays. What would you display in it?
Come and see this pot and lots of other ceramics and sculpture at the Storey Gallery in Lancaster, November 22nd-28th 2022.
Wood fired rawglazed stoneware, 16cm. Wood ash glaze with ilmenite decoration.
There’s a short article about me in Cumbria Life Magazine, September 2022 edition. http://www.cumbrialife.co.uk/
I’ll be exhibiting at the Northern Potters Association summer exhibition on 2nd & 3rd July 2022. This is being held at Hare Hill Barn, Cartmell Fell, LA11 6NZ. It’s an amazing location overlooking the Winster valley in South Lakeland. Lots of other potters & ceramicists, and there will be some raku workshops so do come along.
These two conical vases show off my Titanium Green glaze and what it can do. The background glaze is a Magnesium Matte.
I wanted to create a green without using Copper or Chromium and this alternative produces a lovely shade with some interesting variations. I’m still gradually working on it to suit rawglazing and singlefiring – because I’m not bisque firing my pots my glazes have to be adjusted to be able to apply them to raw clay.
These tiny bowls are only 5cm across. They’ve been thrown “off the hump” (which means they’ve been thrown successively off the top of one lump of clay) and raw glazed.
I’ll be exhibiting at Fired Up Furness on 30th April – 1st May. Come and see 7 local potters from South Cumbria. Lots of other things to do in Ulverston that weekend too as it’s Print Fest.
Coffee always tastes better in the right cup! I’ve been working on this new series of coffee cups, adjusting the size for the perfect Lungo and the handle to get the angle right for a comfortable feel.
I often use these two glazes which interact in interesting ways with each other and with iron in the clay. The results can be quite variable and this is a striking example of what they can achieve.
