Coral Glaze

Finding a glaze that could recreate the craters of the European glazes of the 60s and 70s was a pleasant adventure for me. In the past I bought some beautiful German ceramics from the Scheurich factory and also French ceramics from Vallauris. I was not immediately attracted by this thick and materic glazes but slowly the desire to reproduce them intensified and, for a certain period of time, I looked for information on the chemistry of the glazes that could work for the purpose.

It was pleasant to test different recipes and to understand how to cause large or small very thick or thin craters.

Experimenting always leads to new solutions, continuous variations and modifications and is also a springboard for new ideas and considerations regarding the different developments of an initial idea. From crater glazes in the style of the 70s the step towards crater exasperation was quite short.

Thus the "Sea Foam" vases were born.

But coral glaze is a further accentuation of the style of "volcanic" glazes.
Wide, dense and thick craters, almost a muscular structure enveloping the structural grés, are accompanied by a network of smaller, thicker cavities.