Meeting tomorrow to discuss details of the kiln. Green Estate have not yet seen the new design for the kiln and we have not seen the progress made at the site, so its going to be exciting to see what’s new and to plan the actual building of the facility. We are hoping to have the kiln built by mid November at the very latest, in time for Open Studies (18th and 19th at Persistence Works and 20th at Manor Oaks.) Lots to do though – considering it took 10 – 12 people 9 days to build the kiln in Hungary. That’s quite a lot of manpower but we are hoping for NVQ students and volunteers to help out. We need to source the materials and equipment and start thinking about where we will source the wood which will ideally be very thin and well-seasoned. The wood in Hungary was offcuts from a flooring company and ideal.
We also need to start planning out our schedule of workshops and firings. We are of course hoping we will get a couple of firings in before Open Studios too but that may be optimistic – especially as we have to make sure we have the time to make some pots to put in it! We are not quite sure of our exhange with the North Wales potters at the moment as things have been rather quiet so we are trying to find solutions to that.
I have been trying to collate the photos from my trip but its been quite an onerous task – with digital one tends to take far too many photos! Still it means I do have photos of almost every step of the way. The problem then though, is to isolate out the particularly important relevant ones!
More updates after the meeting.
