Ceramics by Ulla Hansen consist of bowls dishes and bottles. She writes about her work: My preferred shapes and forms are classical, inspired by ancient, Islamic and Asian arts and crafts. My clay is the very sandy red clay from the South of Denmark. I mix and clean it myself and store it for more than a year before I use it. In my large trays and bowls I add stoneware clay.
I throw all my pieces on the wheel, after which I pull or draw lobes, make facets, cut, shape and/or stamp bands. Most pieces have been given a slip – often several layers. I’m very fascinated by glazes and the hues derived from the slips and the ash and clay glazes. I use ash and clay glazes and the hues are derived from the slips : many types of different ashes like from beech wood, straw, oak yield different hues and colours. I much prefer light blue and green, turquoise colours.
I fire my electrical kiln to around 1210° C until the clay crystallizes and melts body and glaze into one body. Reduction is quite heavy all the way to maximum temperature, which makes t he clay very dark. Reduction is done with resinous wood. You will find the works of Ulla that we have in stock on the dutch version of this page.