A POTCLAYS MAYCO WORKSHOP WITH BRE KATHMAN

ou will have noticed over the 39 issues of that I use a lot of branded brushon glazes to decorate the projects. This is because the turnaround for content for the magazine is very fast, leaving me with no time to make and test new glazes after developing and making the projects ready for photography. Traditionally, I have mixed my own slop glazes, whether ready-prepared in dry form from a manufacturer or following a recipe, and like many potters, I was really quite purist about it. But then another potter friend of mine asked if I had ever tried any of the Mayco brush-on glazes from Potclays. Like me, she had always developed her own glazes but had recently decided to try out a couple in the Mayco range because she had an order for something in a particular colourway that she needed to get out to a customer quickly. She was bowled over by the results – the lusciousness of the fired glazes, the ease of application and the cone 5-6 firing range that is much