In Lyuba’s gallery the group was able to see just how extensive and varied Lyuba’s ceramic works have been. Many of her newer colorful sculptural creations were on display. Most of those newer works were fired in an electric kiln, but the tour was also shown the large much-used gas kiln that David Milne had built (photo below).
Lyuba then turned the guiding of the tour over to David, who explained the excitement of making Raku pottery, where glowing-hot pieces of pottery in a small tiger torch-heated kiln, are precariously moved with a long pair of tongs into a bucket of straw or newspapers. The very glowing-hot pots cause the straw or paper in the bucket to ignite, then the fire is smothered by a lid on the bucket, which draws oxygen out from the glazes, giving the cooled glaze a metallic look.
The Dunster Museum’s “Discovery Visits” which organized the tour of Lyuba’s studio have been very interesting so far, and I am certainly eager to see where they take us next.
You can see my paintings at: davidmarchant2.ca
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