Wood Fired Pottery

This ancient technique has largely been replaced by the ease and control of modern electric or gas-fueled kilns. Wood firing is at least a 24-hour process that requires a constant supply of wood and round-the-clock stoking until the kiln reaches temperatures of up to 2500ºF.

Firewood generates a volatile atmosphere of flying ash and salts within the kiln chamber, and those interactions – between flame, ash, air and minerals in the clay bodies – produce some of the most unique, unpredictable and breathtaking effects in pottery.