Two days ago I was fortunate to be able to visit the Brownhills clay pit near Cannock which is owned by Potclays and the material and equipment sponsor for the British Ceramics Biennial 2013
This visit was tied into my involvement with the British Ceramics Biennial in September. Phoebe Cummings and myself had a tour of the site. A landscape I find utterly intriguing for many reasons but predominately for it's scale, and to experience clay in it's raw state before any processing has taken place.
Here are some close up images of the clay, because of the hot weather the entire site was bone dry so it has brought all the additional material matter to the surface. I'm looking to extract the clay I need straight from it's source and that's the very point I'm investigating right now.
This visit was tied into my involvement with the British Ceramics Biennial in September. Phoebe Cummings and myself had a tour of the site. A landscape I find utterly intriguing for many reasons but predominately for it's scale, and to experience clay in it's raw state before any processing has taken place.
Here are some close up images of the clay, because of the hot weather the entire site was bone dry so it has brought all the additional material matter to the surface. I'm looking to extract the clay I need straight from it's source and that's the very point I'm investigating right now.