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The process starts with throwing the pot on the wheel to shape I desire. When the pot is nearly completely dry I will brush on the oxides, roughly, so to have varying thickness. A mixture of either black iron oxide and red iron oxide, or black iron oxide and copper carbonate, giving either a brown/black colour or green/black colour respectively. The pots are then bisque fired to a temperature of 1000 degrees centigrade.The next process is to glaze them with a white glaze. I've tried many different white glazes to reach the one I use today. I needed one, which react and work with the oxides underneath during the final firing.                                            
To glaze the pots, I simple pour the glaze over, so to get different thicknesses of glaze, and so with the varying thicknesses of oxide and glaze the result should be a variation of colour and texture. The final firing is taken to 1260 degrees centigrade.
Since graduating from Camberwell College of Arts in 1999, with a BA(hons) in Ceramics, Allpress has spent just over two years travelling around the world. Since his return in 2003 he has starting up his studio within the farming region of the Fens, where he grew up and concentrated on his career as a ceramicist inspired by the nature of the land. My inspiration comes from the place I grew up in the countryside, The Fens in Cambridgeshire.
My work is trying to show the beauty of nature in its simple forms and subtle colour ranges.His work is drawn directly from his upbringing in the farming landscape, looking at the way nature develops in its bizarre and beautiful way; capturing these growth obscurities and abnormalities to form pieces that are simple, yet relate back to their organic origin.
Allpress specialises in thrown non-functional ware. Each piece is thrown to its desired shape, and then carefully turned to reduce the thickness as much as he dare, before the pot would collapse. Then pieces are carefully manipulated with simple continuous impressions to give the sense of growth or life.
The glazing Allpress uses, is kept to very simple white glazes. Some with oxides painted directly underneath the glaze. This method is used, so to let the oxide and glaze combine and blend on their own accord. Different outcomes occur depending on the thickness of glaze and oxides.