Summer is as good a time as any to try something new – so I went on a 5-day Raku workshop last week. My tutor (he prefers “Maitre” of course!) was Jean Francois Delorme who is a fantastic potter, if slightly eccentric in his teaching style. One of the other women on the workshop asked him for help with a rather sorry looking pot and was told ….”There are three solutions (1) a hammer (2) give it to your mother in law or (3) reglaze it! ”
Anyway, I like his style, and I enjoyed the course. Here are a few extremely wobbly examples of my very own raku pots……
rosalind marchant 