fire & earth

Hand built from coils and slabs of Ashraf Hanna raku clay and fired to a temperature of 1000 degrees the Fire & Earth collections are lovingly hand burnished using pebbles and glass bulbs prior to firing. They are then wood fired in a barrel which gives them the amazing organic marks produced from the smoke of the fire combining from the marks made by the addition of banana skins, seaweed, salt, coffee grounds and naturally occurring oxides. Smoke firing leaves each piece with it's own magic having undergone a unique, impossible to repeat process.