On Centre 2020 end of course exhibition

Introduction by Sandy Lockwood, instructor of the course

I am pleased to write this introduction to the online exhibition for the 2020 ON Centre course at La Meridiana Italy.
Teaching this course was a wonderful experience. It was a pleasure meeting with such a diverse group of people and watching their work develop.
The work you see here represents a selection of what the participants produced during the course. An integral part of the course was the use of a variety of clays, glazes, and firing techniques in an environment that encouraged experimentation and new ideas.
There is a wonderful range of styles and techniques that have been used to produce these lovely works. Each person bought with them to the course their life experience and ceramic background and worked hard to develop their own expression. I hope for each of them, that this course formed the beginning of the next phase of development in their ceramic practice.
The hard work and long hours that the participants put in was supported by the generous and knowledgeable staff at La Meridiana. In particular I would like to acknowledge the valuable and good natured teaching support offered by Franco Rampi.
I hope you enjoy viewing these works as much as I enjoyed my part in bringing them into existence.

Dr Sandra Lockwood
Balmoral, Australia

Nancy Adler, Canada

Large Plate
Stoneware
Oribe, gold wash and tenmoku glaze over titanium slip
Wood fired, then gas fired in reduction atmosphere

Nancy Adler, Canada

Vase
Stoneware
Oribe and gold wash over tenmoku glaze
Wood fired, then gas fired in reduction atmosphere

Nancy Adler, Canada

Plate
Stoneware
Gold wash over tenmoku glaze
Wood fired

Andrew Eastaugh, England

Gelato Cups
Porcelain
Copper red and chung, reduction fired
h 8 cm

Andrew Eastaugh, England

Faceted vase
Stoneware, reduction fired

Andrew Eastaugh, England

Bowl
Porcelain
Reduction fired

Rebecca Ickes, United States

Vase
Stoneware, oribe glaze
Wood fired

Rebecca Ickes, United States

Nestling bowls
Porcelain, white salt and oribe
Gas firing in oxidation atmosphere

Rebecca Ickes, United States

Wine glass
Porcelain, David’s oribe
Woodfired and refired in gaskiln reducing atmosphere

Susan McIntosh, Australia

Teapotset
Stoneware, reduction fired,
The top and the sprigs are glazed chun over temoku
The bottom has been dipped in oribe (over white slip)
Where the oribe overlaps the chun on the sprigs they have turned purple
h 24 cm,

Susan McIntosh, Australia

Small red vase
Porcelain, copper red glaze with oribe at the top
Reduction fired
28 cm

Susan McIntosh, Australia

Large water jug
Stoneware, David’s Oribe glaze
Woodfired
h 40 cm

Allegra Mount, USA

Serving Jug
Stoneware, David Shaner flashing slip, oribe and chun glazes
Salt glazed and wood fired
h 28 cm

Allegra Mount

Serving Jug
Stoneware, oribe glaze
Woodfired
h 28 cm

Allegra Mount, USA

Set of Water Pitchers
Porcelain, titanium slip and chun glaze
h 23 cm

Liliane Staehli Köck, Switzerland

Cup
Clear under white salt
9,5 x 11 cm

Liliane Staehli Köck, Switzerland

Cup
Sara’s Oribe
Wood fired
7,5 x 7 cm

Liliane Staehli Köck, Switzerland

Cup
Iron red
Oxidation fired
8 x 8,5 cm

Kseniya Rostotskaya, Russia

Cup. Dedication to the Tuscan landscape
Porcelain, oribe
Oxidation gas fired

Kseniya Rostotskaya, Russia

Teapot
Oribe glaze on top, chun glaze on the bottom
Oxidation gas fired

Kseniya Rostotskaya, Russia

Three bottles: “ hommage to Giorgio Morandi”
Stoneware, with three different tipes of firings
1) Reduciton, copper red over chun. H 20 cm
2) Double firing in woodkiln. sunset shino + white salt. H19 cm
3) Oxidation firing, temmoku H18cm

Margherita Steward, Italy

Small vases
1. Porcelain, oxidation fired, white salt + tenmoku
2. Porcelain, wood firied, clear glaze
3. Stoneware, wood fired, white salt
4. Porcelain, oxidation fired, yellow glaze_ wood fired with clear glaze

Margherita Steward, Italy

Small Vases
1. Stoneware, woodfired, titanium slip + white salt
2. Stoneware, woodfired, titanium slip + chun
3. Groggy stoneware, woodfired, white salt + sara’s oribe
4. Groggy stoneware, reduction fired, celadon + shino
5. Stoneware, woodfired, titanium slip + celadon
6. Stoneware, woodfired, titanium slip + copper red