Shaun Hall's Raku Ceramics Blogspot

Now showing with Old Chapel Gallery as part of the 2016 Hay Festival celebrations.  

I've been asked to ship a small batch of wheel thrown pots to the States, to Charlie B's Gallery in Nevada. You might know Charles Blim is a great advocate of Potters from around the world and he kindly contacted me regarding my work earlier this year. It's taken time to get my stuff together, and I now have some little Raku bottles to fire to go along with my tea bowls. Here are some of the batch drying out. I'll let you know the results and how I get on packaging and shipping...He's a nice guy that Charlie! Charlie Blim Gallery- Nevada USA   http://charliebgallery.com/index.asp

I just spent the weekend parcelling up pots ready for shipping out. Some are off to the Old Chapel Gallery. This is a new venue  for me but it's set in lovely Herefordshire. Now fingers crossed I sell some pots! Some of the pieces sent out are pictured below. You can check out the website here- http://oldchapelgallery.co.uk/

What a weekend I had for selling! Doesn't happen too often...Some of my recent pots found themselves off to private collectors, two pieces being bought by the curator at Chelmsford Museum and two to a nice chap in Tunbridge Wells. Both customers were very discerning and chose well! So it's good-bye to some recent favourites...

The latest raku bowls are all wheel thrown, and have white and blue overlapping glazes. Working pretty well I think, why I haven't done it before? Large dishes- size approx 24cm diameter retail at £75 ea

Below- Raku glazed "Sentinel". Sadly -  they easily develop firing cracks- along the seams and elsewhere being an enclosed sculptural shape. The crack can easily be seen here...So I am not sure whether to continue with this line or not...

A selection of Raku copper matte "Pisces" c 2016 - in A1 condition these sell now for £225-£255 depending on quality, colour and texture. These are prime examples- unlike my seconds on the ebay store!