HENDERSON, Ewen

Ewen Henderson hand built bowl

Description

Ewen Henderson bowl in a variety of stoneware glazes which have been built up, layer by layer. Built by hand, originally as a thumb pot and enlarged using coils or just pinched out, glazed to a  stoneware temperature of  1200-1280 centigrade in an oxidation kiln. The glaze is badly fitting and coming away form the clay by the rim. If there is a different shrinkage rate between the clay and the glaze due to the different elements used, glaze can peel away, which has happened here, in a small part of the rim. Please examine pictures carefully.

Size Height 6.5cm

Size Width 20cm

Weight

Item details

‘In building Henderson likes to keep options open and tries to maintain plasticity in the clay until the final stages. He will often make a form in a number of pieces, working concurrently on the different sections. The whole piece may be liable to late revision, and for this he now uses paper clay, made up if 30% paper pulp and 705 clay slip. With it he can add thin sections, new surfaces, fill cracks and alter and redefines edges, even after numerous firings.’….. ‘ Expansion and shrinkage in the kiln will contort and split the surface, creating a rich and varied patina, almost geological in appearance’ ….’He takes risks, but this consummate craftsman certainly controls what he does, even if the outcome can look fragile and precarious forms to the point of collapse’ 

Quote from David Whiting’ 1995;  as published in ‘Ewen Henderson’, published by Marston House , 1995 by Roger Berthoud, David Whiting and Christopher Reid.