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CHILD September 2000 Volume 36 Number 8
att KINDLING A PASSION
eee) Wood-fired Ceramics

Wood fired ceramics stem to have a special spot in the heart of many potters. [t represents our :
art in its most primal form, rising out of the primary elements of air, fire, water, earth, and in the | |
Chinese elements - wood. We talk about pots being ‘kissed’ by the kiln; lashings and ‘accidents’ |
are served up when we are especially lucky.

Ower the last couple of years I've met a number of people who have made the switch from electric
fining to wood, One woman is Canadian potter Martha Johanson who was featured in an earlier
edition of the newsletter. Another is Terli Juurinen, a Finnish potter whom | met at a Fred Olsen
kiln building workshop in Edmonton a couple of years ago. The third is Alison Tang a local potter
from Vancouver [sland. These three
women submitted articles about their ex-
periences and are eager to share them with
other potters.

Por further information on wood-finng
enter “wood-fire’ in a general search on
line and you'll get multiple listings. If you
fo to www-eceramicsmonthly.org, pick
‘article search’ and enter the word * wood";
over 60 article entries are listed.

‘iy personal favounte wood-fire tradition
is from Okayama, Japan. If you enter the
word ‘bizen’ in a general search, several
intereshing sites with greatimages.are listed,

You can always visit Niwa Gallery in
Gastown to have a look at some of the
weexl-fired work produced in British Co-
lurmbia, and see images on the Tozan
website at www toran,be,ca,

Rachelle Chinnery

Top right: Mfortho Joferson's ella

Below pine:  dohavude's kiln, reduction firing ia the ras
Top fer: Terti Junrinen firing kiln

Helow fell: external chimaey of Jeurinen's tile

cominged pape 4, 5 ava 4