The work you see on these pages varies from small functional pots, such as sake bottles and tea bowls, to larger decorative vessels. Most of my work is made using local clays, mainly Shigaraki, and fired for up to 7 days in my wood-burning kiln.
The pieces are either fired raw with no glaze, allowing the accumulated fly ash produced during the firing, or glazed with a shino-type glaze. Some of the work has been pulled from the kiln at high temperature and rapidly cooled (hiki-dashi) giving varied effects.
John Dix is a potter, a teacher, and he runs the ceramics program at Fieldwork Japan.
Please feel free to contact John with any questions.