Contemporary Raku

Leo Dashwood is a Raku potter whose artistic journey was profoundly influenced by a transformative encounter with a ceramic vessel by John Ward. Drawn to the nuanced beauty of form, texture, and color in ceramics, Dashwood pursued his craft over many years branching out into new experimental glazing and finishing techniques allowing for far more control over colour compositions compared to traditional chemical glaze reduction processes alone. Dashwood feels different firing methods with a hand-made, hand operated gas kiln and differnt reduction choices of oxygen or carbon dioxide along with different materials and placements once removed from the kiln while still red hot is deeply engaging. His work explores the intersection of artistic expression and ceramic tradition, emphasizing the subtle imperfections that make ceramic pieces uniquely human.