Raku Pottery

Karen Wilde’s Raku sculptures are pulled red-hot from a homemade honey-drum kiln and transferred to a firey reduction chamber with combustibles. This produces unpredictable surface colours and glaze patterns while leaving smokey scorched marks on the raw clay areas.

Experimental processes of including both inorganic and natural organic materials in the clay bodies, glazes and firing process – result in every piece being unique NZ-made artwork.