Current Work
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Welcome to the website of Steve Mills the Bath Potter.
These pages are set out to share with you the pleasure I get
from my involvement with Clay and associated activities, and
the building and firing of Kilns.
I
have
been involved with these activities for a few years now,
though the years spent as a production potter didn’t leave an
awful lot of time for experiment.
Since
helping to found Bath Potters’ Supplies in the beautiful
English West Country, odd moments of spare time began to appear,
and consequently I was able to experiment a bit, observe the efforts
and expertise of others who shared my interests, and develop
my own thoughts and ideas, including focusing on kilns that can be
built and fired by the individual rather than large ones that need
a team to operate them. I hope you enjoy the following pages.
With my own making, I am trying as much as possible to use locally sourced
ingredients.
At the moment this is restricted to glaze materials, and includes a certain amount of
recycled waste, which I find very satisfying, especially as it is by and large free!
However this also means that a fair amount of work has to be done to make them viable, but
I enjoy the process.
I would really like to use a local clay as well, but this is proving very difficult, not from
the temperature angle, but because what is available has a very high iron-bearing mudstone
content which needs to be sieved out, as the clay is already very iron rich.
It will take time, but I'll get there eventually!