Florian Gadsby

Pictures of my present and past work—you might find uploads here that I haven't posted on Instagram before.
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Florian Gadsby
a shelf filled with lots of cups and saucers
Thrown mugs
If you could only pick one?
This may contain: a person is making clay on a potter's wheel with one hand and the other
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How to Throw a Narrow Pottery Vase
They are tricky objects to make, clay thrown so narrowly likes to buckle and twist and really distributing the clay evenly can be exceedingly troublesome. Hence why I tend to throw them a bit thick and then turn them down, which also negates the horror which is wafer thin cylinders bending to one side as they dry out unevenly. These are thrown from 400 grams.
six jars lined up in a row on a white surface with no one around them
Handmade Jars — Glaze Tests
Lidded jar forms, each coated with a different glaze. All fired in a reduction atmosphere.
a pen is sitting on top of some paper with teapots in the background
Ink Dip Pens and Illustrations
Hand thrown ceramic ink dip pens with antique nibs and sketches of pots.
a tea pot and saucer sitting next to each other
Feldspathic Teaware for One
A platter, teapot and cup, all coated with the same dark green crackle glaze and reduction fired to cone ten over a nine hour period in a gas kiln.
a room filled with lots of pots and tables
View of Florian Gadsby's studio.
I moved into this studio almost exactly three years ago. It’s based in an old industrial laundry and has a few quirks too it, such as the arched doorway leading into the workshop and an arbitrary painted over window on an internal wall.
This contains: A handmade lidded jar being thrown on the pottery wheel, then trimmed once leather hard, glazed in a celadon type glaze, gas fired in a kiln to 1290ºc and finally the finished, fired vessel.
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Creating a Pottery Jar on the Potter's Wheel
This short video shows the creation of one of my handmade ceramic, stoneware, lidded jars, from start to finish.
This may contain: a clay vase sitting on top of a potter's wheel with a person in the background
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A montage of squashed pots from this year.
Pots thrown poorly and destroyed on the wheel, as usually it’s more straightforward just to stop, wedge up some more clay, and start again, rather than trying to spend time fixing a form that’ll never be quite right.
This contains: A collection of pottery fails on the throwing wheel, stoneware thrown and trimmed and destroyed.
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Pottery Bloopers and Fails
It isn't always sunny sailing. Here's a collection of bloopers and fails filmed at the wheel over the past few weeks.
an art work is being displayed in a room with white brick walls and blue frame
A packed Rohde KG-340 Gas kiln.
My kiln packed and ready to fire to 1290ºc in a reduction atmoshpere.
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five different sized toothbrushes sitting next to each other
Florian Gadsby on Instagram: "New stamps, porcelain maker’s marks, some I’ll use, others were made simply for demonstrative purposes for my YouTube video that shows how they’re carved. The rest of the photographs in this series show how they were glazed, stuffed, head down in a lump of wadding to support it during the firing. Then there’s the porcelain marks, freshly carved and finally stamped into a block of clay. I test them as I’m carving, making sure I only impress the leather hard mark…
a tall stack of ceramic vases sitting on top of each other
Florian Gadsby on Instagram: "Base to base and rim to rim, coffee cups stacked, all of which are now boxed up and ready to be shipped out. The last hurdle remains though, which is entering in everyone's details into the shipping forms, a process that is painful due to how much I concentrate as I tap them in. It looks like there are delays in the services within the UK, so parcels won't be sent out quite as quickly as I would have liked but with any luck everything will be shipped off…
three bowls and two chopsticks on a wooden table next to a bowl with a knife
Florian Gadsby on Instagram: "The same medium bowl, one just glazed and tidied up, ready for the kiln, and the other, now dark green, has been reduction fired in my gas kiln to cone ten, (1290ºc). Cleaning glazed pots will be all I do this week, both on my feet and sat down, depending on the size of pot, how tired my hands get and simply to change things up to stop monotony from really taking over. The sponging, fettling hand isn’t the one that gets weary, rather it’s the one that grips the…
a stack of vases sitting next to each other on top of a white surface
Florian Gadsby on Instagram: "Stacked bowls, small ones this time, each thrown from half a pound of stoneware clay, 226 grams, and trimmed to just about half that, that might sound nice and light but thereafter the thick glaze goes on, which certainly adds back to the featherlight form. I spent today glazing dozens of these, amongst other forms, I clasp them tightly between tongs, but not too tightly as they will crack and break if squeezed too hard, then they’re dunked, removed from the…
an image of dirty dishes on the stove
Florian Gadsby on Instagram: "The lid of a jar unpacked from my gas kiln this morning. Originally this was a lidded container I didn’t particularly like, as the glaze was under fired a little dull, so, I coated the entire pot in a thick layer of iron ochre and reduction fired it a second time, resulting in this rather magnificent, almost planet like surface. From some angles it shimmers like a mirror and from others it’s rich and red, like an ancient rusted treasure. I’m hoping to scale this…