Ridgeline Pottery

Name: Ridgeline Pottery
Address: 1466 South Arm Road, Sandford, TAS, 7020, AU
Telephone: 0439335932

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05/11/2026

Another pot with a story - this time it revolves around a local clay that continues to mystify and intrigue me.
Quite a few years ago an elderly potter contacted me and asked if I wanted any of the ceramic materials she had as she was no longer making. As I went through her studio she pointed to a pile of grey clay and remarked that Gwyn ( Gwyn Hanssen - Pigott) had said that if a more fusible clay was needed in a glaze then this was the one to use. Gwyn’s glaze classes were the stuff of legend when I started ceramics and so the comment piqued my interest.
I processed the clay for a glaze material which in retrospect was a bit of a mistake as when I subsequently went to the disused clay pit it was very difficult to figure out in a very varied clay deposit where that particular clay had come from.
Since then it’s been an interesting journey of trying to figure out the potential of this material. In this espresso beaker I have used it initially as a slip and then in a simple 30/70 ratio with Nephylene Syenite in a western Shino style glaze - not that it looks anything like that glaze type!
The journey of discovery continues and I’ll have this one in the house with me for a while.

01/11/2026

Even the smallest pots hold a story.
I used this spirit chaser in the firing in the G kiln to test my version of an ash glaze recipe that Steve Williams used when we helped with his woodfiring recently.
The recipe intrigued me as it had a very low feldspar content (about 16%) with the same amount of talc. I replaced the feldspar with local granite and doubled the quantity and adjusted other ingredients to suit.
It has a soft off-white satin quality that I really like and have been chasing for some time.

23/10/2026

Putting handles on mugs when the temperature is in the 30s in Tasmania is a bit tricky - thrown this morning with handles on about 2 hrs later and then the vitreous slip applied.
Now they are resting in the recovery ward - aka the damp cupboard!

22/10/2026

As I work on orders and stock for the showroom for an end of year sale by I’m also thinking about the next stage as we scale things back a bit.
It’s probably going to be a return to using more local materials and making some of my own clay bodies again along with a bit more complexity in the glazing for work like these plates in the G kiln.
Woodfiring will be in there somewhere as one of the first things next year is a small woodfired test kiln - I’m looking forward to building that but need to finish off this year first.

20/10/2026

Finally catching up on orders that I didn’t complete before we went on holidays. There was an order for one butter dish so I’ve done a few more to have as stock for a sale at the beginning of December.

17/10/2026

Two angles on an afternoon shelfie - bottle /beaker / jug of pots by Gwyn Hanssen- Pigott.
Passed but always present.

10/10/2026

We share our lives with friends across the world through their pots in daily or special use.
Today at lunchtime I needed to meet customers in the showroom and took my unfinished cup of tea with me - it was in a hikidashi beaker by Hervé Rousseau that is my goto lunchtime tea vessel.

09/10/2026

Gradually getting back into the rhythm of making - serving platter with grub trail texture on a wide dropped curve rim. The outside will also get this texture after I have turned the outside.

05/10/2026

Back in the workshop finally - catching up on orders for tableware - mostly plates. At the end of a run when there is just a small amount of clay left I often make smaller test pots. Here it was something to keep testing the local high iron slip - there is potential here and I just need to keep chasing it down.

01/10/2026

Mostly we pack pretty conventionally here at Ridgeline but then Jackson Parker decided to pack a raw bonsai pot in the bottom of the chimney. It survived being propped up on the diagonal there and was unpacked before the rest of the kiln.

Address

1466 South Arm Road
Sandford, TAS
7020

Telephone

0439335932

Website

http://www.ridgelinepottery.com/

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