Handbuilding Technique

Candone creates each piece from slabs and coils that have been flattened and carved. She uses a variety of carving and texturing tools, such as a saw edged tool to create a basket weave texture. Often she uses antique wooden block prints to achieve decorative textures. Once textured, these flattened coils are added on to a slab base, then set to dry several hours before adding another coil. Once the piece is complete and dry, it is sanded and bisque fired.

Glazing Process Candone's glazes are based on the old Morrocan lusters. Her first experiments with glazing began in Ibiza, Spain where she came upon some old luster glaze recipes and modified them for Raku. Candone uses a transparent glossy glaze, adding copper, cobalt, silver nitrate and bismuth to create a palate of beautiful lusters. The gold rim which is very typical of her work, is a silver nitrate glaze, heavily reduced. The bright red crackle glaze shown in this bowl is Candone's most recent addition to her palate of rich colours.