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I’ve made a bunch of these little tiny bowls, for salt or something similar. They’re great kiln fillers, these ones came out of my soda kiln, unglazed, tucked between some bigger pots

I’ll have some of these on my online shop on 21

New leaky lid for the soda kiln featuring a little pot that never made it in. Swipe for some spooky gas bottles and trip hazards

Firing pots for my first online pot shop. 21/11

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A fresh board of pots, still warm from my gas kiln

Some of these will be for my first Christmas pot shop go live 21/11

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Bisc starting to pile up in my studio

21st November - online Christmas pot shop

7th December - @throwingshapes___ Christmas market in Dublin

7th December @jessjos open studio sale in London

And some pots heading over to @klei.shop in London

In my last making days before I start getting everything through my kilns for my Christmas pot shop, going live 21/11/24.

It’ll be a collection of tableware, mostly fired in my gas kiln, but with a couple of special soda fired pieces too

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Busy digging clay out of this bank this week. Going to play around with it, trying it out in a few different kilns at different temperatures, to try and capture something special

This is the beginning of a project, a material mapping of the island O

Here’s a rare snap of me and some of my pots, in @klei.shop at the opening a few weeks ago

It’s the last weekend of my show of my little tableware collection, they have a few pieces still available so pop in and have a look if you’

There’s a few mugs as part of the collection, An tOileán / This Island, some are simple shapes and others have been faceted. Here’s one that came out of my brick soda kiln, photographed on a particularly nice breezeblock in the yar

A favourite. Fired on its side along with another bottle I posted a few back, you can see the scarring and flashing left on the surface during the firing. Thrown in a groggy clay mixture and with some gentle facets running up its belly

This one has

Small serving bowl in celadon

Part of An tOileán / This Island, my tableware collection at @klei.shop in London, on until 31st of August

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Soda and ash coatings over a shino base glaze on a serving bowl. I’ve a few of this size of serving bowl at @klei.shop for my show there, this is the only soda fired one, the others are fired in my rohde gas kiln and are in celadon and shino gl

Small celadon plates from a close up photo last week. These are small, thrown upside down and wired off with a curly wire

Available from @klei.shop till 31st of August

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Fired on its side on a bed of shells, this bottle was fired in a brick soda kiln on Oileán Chléire. Its glazed in a shino glaze, but it got a thick coating of ash and soda during the firing so very little reds and oranges remains - if y

A little cup. Cast in porcelain and glazed in celadon

Part of my collection of tableware available from @klei.shop, till 31st of August

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Thanks so much to all you guys who made it last night. I had the best time

This Island / An tOileán is open at @klei.shop until the 31st of August

And my website is now live - it’s linked in my bio, simonkiddpottery.com. This will be t

Todays the day!! My little collection opens tonight at @klei.shop at 6pm

Big love @skyecorewijn.ceramics who runs @klei.shop for letting me have a go at this. I’m really looking forward to seeing how this work develops alongside my sculptural

Detail from another serving bowl, a small one this time, in a pale celadon glaze

I like this glaze, it’s pretty simple and subdued but it has some nice variation across pieces. It changes in tone depending on the clay used and the reduction of

Detail of a faceted lidded jar in a shino glaze

I’ve made pots in a few different clays, one of which being a general reclaim I have in my studio, which this is made from. It’s a mix of smooth and grogged, buffs and reds, stonewares and

$Details from a bottle fired on its side on a bed of beach shells in my soda kiln. The shells work as a refractory to keep the pot separate from the kiln shelf, they fall away after the firing. They flash vapours against the clay during the firing, an$