Katie Plumb

I have decided to work on a more upright cube for this piece. It is made using ES10 clay which has a fine grog in it. Once it is dry I sh...

It's been a while! Since my last post I have now graduated as a fully fledged MA Ceramicist! Yay! It was a really great experience and I ...

With two new cubes roughly gouged and ready to be dried before bisque firing, all looked well. However, the following morning - more disa...

It was with great excitement (and a little trepidation) that I travelled to Uclan this morning. I was anxious to see how my pebble bowls ...

So much time spent on wedging, colouring, layering, forming, gouging... the result being crumbs! Very disheartening to come and find all ...

An impromptu trip to Cornwall for a 'last fling' with daughter Lucy before she flies the nest to go to University. Felt quite guilty as t...

Following on from the Earth and Fire experience I felt a need to branch away from cubes, even if it was only for a temporary experiment. ...

An important part of making using clay is the finish, the refining. With the coloured clay, ripples and dents can be disguised to some ex...

Above the images show how the clay is weighed in relation to how big the sculpture is going to be. Colour is added as a percentage of the...

Lack of blogging recently due to warm weather!... and preparing pieces for Earth and Fire International Ceramics at The Harley Gallery, W...

This was an impromptu piece that I just felt I had to do. I had been looking at the cube form as a shape to show a contrast against the c...

I wanted to find out how the colours from two clay cubes would turn out when fired to Reduction. I used the shards from gouging so they w...

The Scottish Gallery Moyra Stewart Straight away I was totally drawn towards and excited by this work by Moyra Stewart. It totally connec...

It was suggested that we take our own plate, mug and bowl to Hungary which I thought was a great idea. I set to throwing on my wheel at h...

I'd heard of mono printing but had never investigated it or questioned what the process was so, when Karen came to demonstrate, I was int...

These three shades are my favourite combination (this week!) I plan to strata a cube in order to gouge. It's a messy business! After laye...

Testing different colour combinations and thicknesses of layers. Rutile is my 'go to 'colour at the moment. Again there are cracks. These...

I felt as though I had a good range of work to show for my assessment with Dave and Karen (Howarth). There was definite progress to be se...

Really pleased with the fired porcelain tiles. The higher temperature has thrown up some amazing variants in colour and tone. The left 3r...

I am working on two pieces which are just about hard enough to gouge. The are made of grogged porcelain and grogged black clay (red at th...