Philip Wilks Ceramics

CATEGORY: Porcelain
METHOD: Throwing
COLOUR: White
TEXTURE: Very Smooth
FIRING RANGE: 1120°c – 1280°c

My current work is mainly in Porcelain, which is hand thrown and assembled. It is fired in an electric kiln and glazed using my own recipes. On some work, acrylic resist is used to create a deep relief surface-decoration which is filled with glaze, the platinum and gold lustres are applied by hand and fired to fix them. Finally, the crazing is stained. In 2010 I built a catenary arched gas-fired kiln and am now producing/developing soda-fired work.

Pictures

Wheel Thrown Porcelain Bowls
Using relief decoration to enhance the bowl form and to react with the glaze. The relief surface is created by cutting into the clay and by applying slip. My Ocean Blue glaze responds to the raised surfaces and cut away strips through subtle and appealing colour variations.
Interior has a semi-matt glaze and the exterior glazed with Ocean Blue. The colours of the Ocean Blue glaze subtly incorporate breaking blues and shades of warm pink, punctuated by the breaking highlights on the raised slip relief decoration.

Philip uses ES 170 Glacier Porcelain & PF 700 (Porcelain White Stoneware).

Visit their website: www.philipwilksceramics.co.uk