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 shall use wire wool to...

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 have met some wonder...

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

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 had done in their bi...

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

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 there is lots to do i...

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. I realised that many...

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

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 weight of the clay ...

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

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 curvy strata and goug...

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 were very thin and r...

The Scottish Gallery Moyra Stewart Straight away I was totally drawn towards and excited by this work by Moyra Stewart. It totally connects with my vision an...

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 home and produced 6 b...

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 intrigued and very inte...

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 layering, slamming and s...

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

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 seen from the tall 'wa...

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

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 the moment). The small...