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John Wheeldon specialises in the making of Raku fired ceramics using several different techniques.
Raku is an ancient technique, originating in Japan, but now practised by many potters in the West. It's defining characteristic is a firing method whereby pots are removed from the kiln at a temperature around 1,000 degrees centigrade and then subjected to various post-firing processes. The finished pots, although fragile and porous, exhibit a range of magical surface qualities unobtainable by normal methods of manufacture.