Høvåg Kunsthåndverk 1980 to 1993.
On Sundays during the summer holidays from June to August, we invited you to RAKU burning. RAKU is an old Japanese process where we glazed the raw-fired and glazed items in a wood-fired oven. I used to burn approx. 40 items on a typical Sunday. On a good Sunday, over half a hectare of 60cm birch wood was used.
My task was to talk, burn, talk, burn. Eli took care of the sales. When I look back on the 13 years we worked with ceramics, around 4,000 objects were fired in this way. Everything was sold, today we are left with a handful of things, not even the best, they disappeared as quickly as I got them out of the oven.
After such a Sunday, I was so tired that I sat on the floor in the shower and just let the hot water flow. One thing was that my arms were constantly hairless, the heat from the oven fixed that. Remember we are talking about a thousand degrees.
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Høvåg Kunsthåndverk 1980 to 1993..
On Sundays during the summer holidays from June to August, we invited you to RAKU burning. RAKU is an old Japanese process where we glazed the raw-fired and glazed items in a wood-fired oven. I used to burn approx. 40 items on a typical Sunday. On a good Sunday, over half a hectare of 60cm birch wood was used.
My task was to talk, burn, talk, burn. Eli took care of the sales. When I look back on the 13 years we worked with ceramics, around 4,000 objects were fired in this way. Everything was sold, today we are left with a handful of things, not even the best, they disappeared as quickly as I got them out of the oven.
After such a Sunday, I was so tired that I sat on the floor in the shower and just let the hot water flow. One thing was that my arms were constantly hairless, the heat from the oven fixed that. Remember we are talking about a thousand degrees.
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Høvåg Kunsthåndverk 1981 to 1993
Here you see the oven, the flames licking up from the opening, about 1000 degrees. I use gloves and tongs to lift things out of the oven. When I see that the glaze has solidified, I put the object in sawdust to create a reducing atmosphere, it gives the most exciting colours. After a couple of minutes, I pick up the still warm thing with the tongs and carefully drop it into the tub of water. I see in the picture that this is one of the first things of the day.
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One of my ceramic bowls, ca. 25 cm ø
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Exhibition under the auspices of Vennesla art association.
For 14 years we lived off what we produced. There were a few thousand ceramic objects. I turned, Eldir glazed. Some great years with lots of people who bought everything we made.
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