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Salt Glazed Pottery in New Brunswick

 

 

It's been 13 years since I started Salt Glazed Pottery here in Seeleys Cove.  I fell in love with salt glazing way back in school when I was at Sheridan College in Mississauga Ontario.  The process is so exciting and requires the potter to be totally involved.  I have a gas kiln which I fire to about cone 10 which is 1300 º Celsius.  When cone 6 starts to fall, I begin throwing rock salt into the kiln a couple of pounds at a time.  It vapourizes when it hits the heat and the sodium reacts with the silica in the clay to form a glaze.  I continue this process every 15 to 20 minutes for about four hours until I have a good layer of glaze and the kiln is up to temperature.  I love the look of the salt glaze and the colour which is introduced by the reduction of the kiln and the pieces of wood I throw in.  To find out more about my kiln click on the kiln.→→


After finishing school in 1978, I started a family with my husband, then glassblower, Patrick Stanley. We moved to PEI in 1980 and started studios there but a few years later I realized that I couldn't raise kids and make pots and do both jobs well.  So although I helped with the glass studio for years, it wasn't until 1993 that I started potting again in earnest.  Though I've always enjoyed handbuilding, throwing functional pots seemed really important and I emphasized that for years.  Recently though I've returned to my first love and created some garden sculptures which have become a very vital part of what I do.