About

Crystalline glazes are the most challenging glazes of all to produce. I was drawn to this technique due to its exceptional beauty and translucency. They stand between art and technology.

The crystals actually form in the glaze in a chemical reaction during cooling and grow from small nuclei created during the melting process when silica and zinc come together to form zinc-silicate, over 4-12 hours of soaking period.

Numerous factors influence the overall guality, size, shape and placement of each crystal.

The colors come from the addition of various coloring metal oxides, like cobalt – copper -nickel – iron manganese that I add to the glaze.

The crystalline glazed ware is fired at about 1285 °C. ( cone 10-11 ), using 2 different clay, stoneware and porcelain.

All the formulate and fire crystalline glazes are unusually difficult and time consuming capturing the luminescence of crystal it achieves a level of elegance, beauty and magic no other glaze can match.