Raku Pottery
| White cone 10 stoneware clay and glazes, some with desert clay and sand. All interiors are glazed for added strength and color and fired at my studio. |
In her most recent Raku ware, Lynn Dee continues to explore form, pattern and texture. She enhances her hand thrown shapes and sculptural attachments with brushwork of glazes and metallic oxides. Bamboo has long been one of her favorite subjects. However, it was not until she had bamboo growing in her own garden, that she sat down with brush and glaze in hand and painted bamboo directly onto a vase. That was more than ten years ago. Her bamboo brushwork has gradually acquired more feeling and become more abstract.
Initially she worked almost exclusively with black and white in Raku,Then color became more important, with a vibrant palette of yellows, blues, turquoise and greens. Her inspiration to work with color came from years as a dyer and fabric painter. She has always been avid about designing and mixing her own glazes
Her latest work is more sculptural than ever before. The Desert Series is inspired by winters spent in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park and travels around the Southwest. She is incorporating the desert into the works themselves in the form of sand and clay painted onto the work before the first firing and in the glazes during the Raku firing.
“The Portfolio is a collection of some of my favorite pieces. The majority are recent. Some are available for purchase. If any of these works speak to you, please contact me. I can also create a piece to your specification in another color, size or design. I photograph my own work so I can send images for your approval as I proceed. All my pieces are one of a kind.”
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| White cone 10 stoneware clay and glazes, some with desert clay and sand. All interiors are glazed for added strength and color and fired at my studio.
Shipping is only 10.00 in the Continental U.S. (USPS) Expect your order in 7-10 business days. Print your own Info Sheet (PDF) about Raku, it's origin, firing techniques and the use and care of Raku ware. |
”Sunrise Vase” green Raku glaze with a copper red blush on one side. |
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 "Polar Bear Jar" clear crackle glazed bear "handle" and smoked base with fern impressions. |
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“Snow Fire” Jar-glazed inside and out with brushwork, buried in snow after the post firing reduction. |
”Sockeye” Jar - white stoneware shows through clear crackled glaze. |
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”White Horse” Jar - Handsculpted horse with clear crackle glaze over white stoneware, interior glazed. |
”Copper red vase #2” -glazed inside and out, reduction fired with post firing reduction |
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”Black Sands” Desert clay and sand painted around top before bisque glazed inside, top includes brushwork. |
”Dark Horse Jar” black metallic oxide glaze with brushwork on base. |
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”Piedra Grande” Inspired by empty morteros in the rocks, the shape is thrown, inverted and textured. |
"Raku Dog Jar" - The dog and the interior are glazed with clear crackle over white stoneware. The body was smoked with leaves and ferns which give a soft mottled surface. |
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“Baby Rock” Jar - hand formed metallic black lid with “rock”, Body stained with metallic wash and brushwork with glaze, glazed inside. |
“Big Red” Glazed inside and out, reduction fired with post firing reduction. |
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“Desert Oasis” with 3 Raku rocks-slab construction with thrown attachment. |
“Terrain Tureen” Lidded box with thrown base and hand formed lid with slab fragments embedded to represent exposed basaltic columns along a ridge. |
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"Cosmic Eye" Colorful golden yellow crackle glaze with copper flashes. Named for the raised graphic symbol of an eye in the bottom of the base. |
”Tres Piedras” Hand built lid with added elements, base is thrown, squared off and glazed inside with a wash of oxides outside. |
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