Duncan Ross

Duncan’s work is thrown and burnished using many layers of a fine terra-sigillata slip with resist and inlay decoration. Colours are achieved by smoke firing and the decoration is developed from linear observations from textiles and geometric motifs.

Duncan chose to work with sigillata through a desire to use the simplest materials with a low firing temperature and to develop a surface form and pattern that would be integral to the clay. Over time, he has developed a feeling of depth, allowing the smoke process to play its essential and unpredictable part.

The pots are placed in sawdust in saggars and have several firings at various temperatures; each firing suggesting the next stage. It is the combination of the fundamental and the sophisticated that Duncan finds so fascinating.

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