Ken Sedberry

My work for the last 52 years has focused on achieving vibrant colors at stoneware temperatures. With the development of chambered climbing kilns came decorative stoneware and porcelain. Much of my work comes out of this tradition. However, I’ve always felt that there’s a range of color at these temperatures that few people have explored. I use various resist techniques to contrast glazes in both color and texture. Much of my work is fired rim to rim which allows the decoration to stay somewhat intact while the path of the flame can be seen on the backsides of the pots. For several years I have been digging a deposit of primary kaolin and developing a porcelain body and several slips rich in impurities; mica, garnets, quartz, etc.

Most recently I have been working on a new body of work; animal sculptures, thrown and altered. The idea of lifting the images off the pots and into three dimensions has been gestating for a long time. Layering slips and glazes that crackle and move and firing them in a wood kiln has been an exciting new direction.