https://www.leelachakravarti.com/blog daily 0.75 2022-06-21 https://www.leelachakravarti.com/blog/wild-clay-top-tips-for-making-pottery monthly 0.5 2021-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d784289186392146954f33/1629984502469-JO66W4RB60CPTKU2KSFB/wild-clay-bowl.jpg Blog - Wild Clay - my journey and tips for yours - Wheel thrown and stoneware-fired, wild clay bowl with melted sea glass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d784289186392146954f33/1627715134105-TUYOXXGI88CGLI7918KQ/IMG_20210701_120539+1.jpg Blog - Wild Clay - my journey and tips for yours https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d784289186392146954f33/1627715249800-XLVG3BEP4WDUW3UFL5LP/VID_20210701_120455_exported_75+1.jpg Blog - Wild Clay - my journey and tips for yours https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d784289186392146954f33/1627715129756-DV2I0495CWMIZLHJYQB0/resized+VID_20210701_133304_exported_2483.jpg Blog - Wild Clay - my journey and tips for yours https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d784289186392146954f33/1629965211761-3HLJNGMDCLVFQ8HPTDVZ/wild-clay-plasticity-test.jpg Blog - Wild Clay - my journey and tips for yours - Make it stand out Wild clay plasticity test - passed! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d784289186392146954f33/1627714877268-7AOBSH1RABBMD44S4GAD/wild-clay-earthenware-stoneware.jpg Blog - Wild Clay - my journey and tips for yours - Make it stand out Bisque fired tile (left) and stoneware-fired tile (right) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d784289186392146954f33/1627758049830-ZBZXUVT3Y0C660VRLA7G/clay-shrinkage-temperature-graph.png Blog - Wild Clay - my journey and tips for yours - Make it stand out Figure 1. 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Rooted in the wild beauty of Devon, from moorlands and rolling hills to rugged coastlines, my pottery blends contemporary design with ancient influence. Each piece is handmade using glazes I formulate from scratch and fire in electric, gas, and wood kilns. I often incorporate wild clay, gathered in small, sustainable quantities from local deposits, grounding my work in the very landscape that inspires it. Environmental responsibility is central to my practice: I minimise waste, fire efficiently, and package without plastic. 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Living and working in north Dartmoor. In a little village on the rugged edge of the moors, this old granite and cob barn became my permanent studio in 2021. Here I live in Dartmoor’s temperate rainforest with ancient forest full of ferns and moss, exposed moorland and fairytale streams. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d784289186392146954f33/e8a0e1b5-1ad1-44ff-b1ee-8b2df8b93d4b/leelapottery-artistsportraitsjan23-62.jpg About A corner of The Pottery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d784289186392146954f33/64e4fb84-0a6c-45b9-9fbb-3d0c4488b2a1/IMG_20220127_153331.jpg About On the moors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d784289186392146954f33/ef866643-97d9-48ec-ad00-32e2fc031dc7/PXL_20230416_142404768+%282%29.jpg About - Make it stand out Shelves of pots waiting to be fired https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d784289186392146954f33/1628091904167-WBYGM7HLPB28CQVA1D6M/1970-01-19-090631467%281%29.jpg About - Starting Life in Devon. In September 2020, I moved to Devon, where I always dreamed I would end up. Surrounded by rolling valleys, fields of cows and sheep and the amazing coastlines of the UK’s South West, I set up studio in an old pig sty, underneath a big ash tree. I invested in a bigger kiln and shipped over my lovely three Australian Venco pottery wheels from Australia so that I could start teaching classes again. I continued to refine my style of warm, earthy, coastal pottery through constant experimenting and inspiration from soaking up my beautiful surroundings. My latest ventures included collecting and working with with local materials, wild clay foraged from the brook down the valley, behind my studio, ash collected from the bonfire and iron oxide deposits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d784289186392146954f33/1628092776002-UB1DDRQF0C2ZQUI6F085/1970-01-19-090631462%280%29.jpg About At the wheel in my Devon studio, throwing with wild clay, collected from the brook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d784289186392146954f33/1628093364938-C82F2WR0209MPON6GS42/1970-01-19-090630887%280%29.jpg About Inside the studio with freshly made vases https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d784289186392146954f33/1628177559724-TLWF7M6HOD781699ABLI/1970-01-19-091617290.jpg About - Make it stand out South Devon sand dunes on a sunny day https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d784289186392146954f33/1627592090141-Y3PYL6DGNW5J9SL9NQTD/1970-01-19-090628879.jpg About - Return to England. In April 2020 I moved back to my childhood home in Hertfordshire and set up a temporary home studio. I converted a 3m x 3m garden shed into a small Pottery in the garden. I invested in a small ‘plug in and go’ electric kiln, made a raku kiln from a galvanised steel bin and set to work making, testing and tweaking new clays and glazes from scratch. For six months amid the pandemic, I pottered around in a creative bubble, selling my work online in monthly shop updates. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60d784289186392146954f33/1625509546506-7ZQ716HMOAJEGRRBXLWR/20200323-LDP_9067.jpg About It all started in the Australian tropics. I moved to North Queensland in Australia’s tropics in 2015, as a Marine Biologist. I researched ways to preserve coral reefs against the devastating effects of climate change. Little did I know that this would also be the beginning of my pottery journey. 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