Suzanne Crane

All of my pieces are wheel-thrown, using a buff-colored stoneware clay body. After throwing, I stretch pieces from the inside using a wooden rib to create thin-walled, bulbous forms. I press plant specimens into the wet clay, then brush a white porcelain slip over the specimen and the clay body. After the slip dries, I pull the specimen off, leaving an accurate fossil impression that gives me a template for glazing. I use a church key to texture the rims and bases of my pieces, pressing one point at a time. Knobs, handles, and feet are hand pulled from stoneware. I use my own glaze recipes. The work is fired in reduction to cone 7/8 in a 60 cubic foot sprung-arch downdraft propane gas kiln, then fired again in oxidation to cone 8 in an electric kiln.

www.suzannecrane.com

Earlysville, VA

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