Ceramic Works
Below are photos of some of my ceramic works created by me, De Waal Immelman, between 2011 and 2016. The older pieces at the bottom were made and gas fired at the studio of Taiwanese master potter Wang Hong Shiang who has taught me a great deal in the past years. I had a small studio for a number of years at my house on Yangming mountain in northern Taipei. I'm currently living back in South Africa, creating cups and other functional ware.
Items labeled 'Wood fired' were taken to the Pingxi or Sanzhi wood fired kiln in northern Taiwan or Miaoli in central Taiwan and fired to over 1200 degrees Celcius using only wood. This unpredictable process takes 5 full days of constant labor plus an additional 5-7 days to gradually cool down and leaves unique one-of-a-kind tones on the raw clay body. These tones are created by flames and also by ash deposits.
Items labeled 'Wood fired' were taken to the Pingxi or Sanzhi wood fired kiln in northern Taiwan or Miaoli in central Taiwan and fired to over 1200 degrees Celcius using only wood. This unpredictable process takes 5 full days of constant labor plus an additional 5-7 days to gradually cool down and leaves unique one-of-a-kind tones on the raw clay body. These tones are created by flames and also by ash deposits.
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Sake set with shino glaze
Wood fired matcha tea bowl with crawling shino glaze
Soda fired porcelain sake set with tenmoku glaze over facets and slip dots
Soda fired red clay sake set with voronoi pattern
Tea bowl with shino glaze
Black clay bottle
Wood fired tea bowl with slip decoration
Wood fired vase with facets. Cuts made on the almost dry clay body caused jittered lines
Big and ample bowl for serving or for eating hearty soup noodles
Wood fired porcelain vase with voronoi pattern in shino glaze
Porcelain vase with thin vertical line cuts
Porcelain vase with voronoi pattern in celadon glaze (gas fired)
Hand made porcelain tumblers with faceting and celadon glaze
Porcelain matcha tea bowls with faceted base and dark brown glaze
Wood fired porcelain chawan (tea bowl)
Wood fired porcelain chawan (tea bowl)
Wood fired stoneware chawan (tea bowl)
Wood fired porcelain teapot
Gas fired chawan (tea bowl) with red iron glaze
Wood fired stoneware chawan (tea bowl) with voronoi pattern in shino glaze
Stoneware jar with celadon glaze
Wood fired stoneware chawan (tea bowl) with shino glaze
Wood fired faceted stoneware chawan (tea bowl) with shino glaze
Wood fired stoneware teapot with shino glaze
Wood fired stoneware teacups with white glaze inside and on outside rim. Ash deposit changes the appearance of the white glaze
Detail
Wood fired triangular stoneware chawan (tea bowl) with shino glaze
Wood fired stoneware chawan (tea bowl) with shino glaze and iron oxide flower motif
Wood fired stoneware chawan (tea bowl)
Wood fired porcelain
Colours and tones created purely by flames and ash deposit
Colours and tones created purely by flames and ash deposit
Stonware teapot with dark green celadon glaze
Wood fired stoneware with carving
Wood fired stoneware with flame markings
Stoneware tea bowl with dark green celadon glaze
Porcelain tea bowl with celadon glaze
Porcelain lidded jar with celadon glaze
Stoneware lidded jar with celadon glaze
Wood fired stoneware lidded vessel with Japanese Shino glaze
