Ron Slagle Studio

Woodfiring and Anagama kilns have become a valued avenue of creating for my pottery, sculpture, and experimentation. In the pass years I have produced work using a single chambered kiln, designed by Will Ruggles. Several of the kilns have been built around the area , with everyone reporting excellent results in firing and surface effects. I combine the flashing effects with salt added to the firing to yeild a little shine to the surface.


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             I have selected work that reflects the interest and directions that I have recently ventured.   I'm very excited with the new work and the opportunity to explore into the forms and imagery of my youth in clay. I have produced and worked in clay for almost 4 decades and I still love to throw on the wheel and play in the mud.
        Hand building pieces have become a favorite mode of play recently. Influences that continually spark my interest come from those items that reflect simple clean visions:   a Peruvian effigy pot , unadorned water pots made with coils of clay in the sands of Africa, bizen ware made from seemingly impossible clay to work, yet yielding jars that survive centuries with such nobility that they are prized around the world and then simple bowls that cup in my hand with a natural afinity for foods and drink.   I like to breech that imagined line between "Art and Utility", a guinomi can be a drinking vessel or the reflection of the skill and thoughtfulness of it's designer.   An effigy pot exhibits elements of a sculptural form, and serves as a food vessel or carries the spirit of the dead on it's long journey.

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