Collection: Wood Fired Pottery and Sculpture

The Anagama Collection

The pieces in this collection were hand built and fired in an anagama kiln. Anagama is Japanese for "cave kiln."  It takes several hundred pots to fill an anagama kiln, so it takes a group of dedicated artists to work together to load the kiln and fire it. 

We stoked the fire for over 55 hours in order to achieve the rich surface quality offered by this firing process. The placement of the pieces in the kiln, the type of wood burned as fuel, the relative amount of oxygen flow through the kiln, and even the weather all affect the results. Flames lick through the kiln from the mouth to the chimney and fly ash from the wood gathers and melts on the ware, creating unique and varied surfaces.

There is often a lot of loss in this process.  But there is also magic, which is what attracts potter and collector alike.