Ceramics: Art and Perception

Soda Ash in Oxidation

Since publishing an article titled in issue 37, I have been researching and experimenting with soda ash in electric kilns. I am intrigued by the soda effect on pots in reduction firing. The studio where I work has many electric kilns and I wondered what the effects of the soda ash mixture I use in the reduction kiln would be like in oxidation. I researched some techniques and performed my own experiments and was quite pleased

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