ST Pottery

Fun new project work in progress. I was contacted to do a commission piece after a customer saw one of my crescent moon bonsai pots. This great project was to make a larger one without drainage holes for carnivorous plants in a black clay.
I made a form to get the basic shape and then hand textured and carved the surface to look like rock and adding small feet to get the result shown.

To many people this is just a boring picture of some bags of clay. But to me it’s possibilities, it’s exciting. I am working on a number of fun projects pictures coming soon.

Who else gets excited over a clay delivery?

Last few items for Halloween 🎃 👻 now on Etsy.

Shirley handcrafted a lovely Hamsa Hand Ceramic Incense Stick Holder / Burner.

If you burn stick incense, you will love one of these incense stick stands. With a small hole in the top to hold the incense stick.

This Hamsa Hand shaped dish is handcrafted and formed, with the added stamp detail. Hand glazed in Blue Green. The glaze breaks and pools making a lovely one off finish. Fired up to 1220°C in our home studio electric kiln.

Finished crescent bonsai pot. Rock texture in red clay.

Finished bonsai pot. Textured in red clay with clear glaze.

Finished bonsai pot. Textured in red clay.

Finished bonsai pot. Green glaze on red clay.

Fresh out of the kiln this morning. Cascade bonsai pot in a lovely deep red. Unglazed just raw clay fired to a high temperature.

Started glazing some bonsai pots today. Always fascinating to see the finish change from when glazed to fired and the final colour. The second picture shows a bonsai pot glazed and when fired will be a green finish. The third picture will be clear!!🙃

Cascade bonsai pot. Slab made and hand textured to look like bark. Slowly drying next to the kiln ready for a bisque fire 🔥

Room for a few more?!!! 😃😃Just finished my bonsai stand base with storage. Bonsai collection growing well and looking good. Nearly all my own handmade bonsai pots, just a few to still change.

New bonsai pot I am working on. Cascade pot with cherry blossom detailing. Slab made then textured and crafted in terracotta clay. .

Shirley has been working on a lovely bird bath. Slab made and hand crafted. Now slowly drying before a bisque fire.

Still love working with textures in clay. Work in progress. This time a large bowl / platter in a lovely buff speckled clay. Slab made, then hand textured with a rock from the beach. Finally trimmed on the wheel to form the foot ring and texture on the outside.

Crescent moon bonsai pot. Work in progress. Slab made then hand carved and textured rock finish in a high fire terracotta clay that comes out dark red when finished.

Textures. Work in progress. After recently visiting the beach and looking at the cliff face I started working on some textured finishes in a high fire terracotta clay that comes out dark red when finished.

Small update for Etsy shop this weekend Spoon rest, Incense stick holder, large fruit bowl and three bonsai pots.

Etsy shop update with a mix of items. Link in my bio.

Large fruit bowl slab made in Black stoneware clay with a bark texture on the outside to highlight the natural unglazed finish. On the inside sea Green glaze.

New mug. Something great about a morning coffee in your own handmade mug.

My Redwood group loves the mix of sun and rain. Growing very well in my oval handmade bonsai pot with a mix of runny glaze.

The best thing about making your own bonsai pots is you always have a reason for more bonsai’s!! Three new set ups in my pots. 1. Large group of Japanese larch in hand made oval pot using dark brown stoneware and green glaze. 2. Group of Redwoods in crescent shaped pot in mixed colour glazes. 3. Three Japanese larch in round bonsai pot in light brown glaze.

Second batch of items trying out some new clay (new to me) Sibelco Spotted Throwing - Stoneware. From Was lovely to work with, smooth feel and moves well. Bonsai pots all with textured finish.

Trying out some new clay (new to me) Sibelco Spotted Throwing - Stoneware. From Was lovely to work with, smooth feel and moves well. I started with a large textured fruit bowl, a spoon rest and incense stick holder.

Great to get back on the wheel this week. It’s been a long time. All starts with some wedged balls of clay and then some clay spaghetti!! Results will be in my next posts. 😀

More lovely textures on some finished oval bonsai pots.

Texture!! New crescent bonsai pots. The first one in black clay and no glaze. Handmade and textured with bits of slate to give a natural look. Very happy with the results.

I seem to have the oval pot bug! This time all slab made in different sizes. The largest one is 16” by 9” and the little one is just 4” by 3” all with lots of texture ready for some lovey runny glaze.

Glazing Glazing Glazing!! Matching up some new Amaco Potters Choice glaze. This is a great range of glaze to use and I love the way it brakes over texture. Real mix of items to glaze. Tortoise, Cat, bonsai pots and test tiles for all the new colours. Looking forward to the results fingers crossed for the kiln gods help.