Renee Slade - Rasa Clay Works

Wheel thrown with our glaze focus on crystal development. Primarily porcelain. Heirloom quality.

Our work is wheel thrown, and our glazes focus on eutectics from sprayiing. Our glazes are hand formulated in our studio from raw earthen materials. We explore new techniques to do what was only previously available in large fossil fuel kilns. Rasa uses an electric kiln firing to cone 9 - exploiting the current potential of computer controlled cooling cycles to create crystalline growth that would have only been possible in multi-day firings.

The clays we use are fully vitrified and tend to be exclusively porcelain. We use food safe liners in all of our functional ware.

We love how pottery is an easily accessible and relatively inexpensive art form that can be used  in our daily lives, bringing beauty and a profound pleasure of interacting with something made  by human hands for human living.