One quarry / One kiln / No repeats
From seamto flame
Body 01
North face
Iron / Quartz
Reduction
1280° C
Wood ash
Objects born from local earth and open flame.
LOAM CERAMICS begins at a small clay quarry cut into the northern ridge. The body is dug in short seasons, washed by hand and blended without industrial colour or uniformity.
Every wood firing is treated as a release. Ash, oxygen and flame pass differently around each object, leaving surfaces that cannot be repeated or fully designed in advance.
Current firing
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The clay pit
The seam is opened with hand tools. Stones, roots and darker pockets stay visible long enough to tell us how the material was formed.
After rain, the clay rests in water, passes through a coarse screen and dries slowly on plaster. Enough character remains to make every wall and rim feel alive.
Wood firing
The kiln is fed continuously for more than two days. Flame carries wood ash through the chamber, building natural glaze where it lands and exposing raw clay where it does not.
Inside the firing
The maker
The work is quiet and direct: gathering, preparing, forming and firing the same material within a few kilometres of where it was found.
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