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Trefor, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, LL54 5NB. Tel: 01286 660545 Email: cwmpottery@clara.co.uk |
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Profile: Richard was born in Dunstable, Bedfordshire in 1944. He studied at Luton College of Art and at Goldsmiths College, London. He ran a studio pottery in Eaton Bray, near Dunstable for 10 years and taught pottery part-time at Barnfield College, Luton. He moved to North Wales in 1976 and has set up his current studio in an old watermill on the mountainside just above Trefor village, where he makes and sells most of his work. |
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Process: Richard usually spends 2-3 weeks throwing and making the pots. When they have completely dried out they are carefully packed into the kiln and fired to 1000°C in the Bisque Firing. At this stage the pots are still porous and this is when they are glazed. They are also decorated with oxides or slips with the decoration echoing the movement of the making process of the wheel. The kiln is then fired to 1280°C, which takes about 13 hours to reach. The whole process for each pot from start to finish is about 3-4 weeks.
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