Stephen Price studied at Medway College of Art and later taught for a time in London and Dorset. In 1994 he moved to Bristol to set up a small workshop producing a range of domestic earthenware and experimented with firing techniques. His domestic ware utilises coloured transparent glazes with resist over a slip and sgraffito surface.

Glossary

  • Earthenware

    One of the three major types of pottery, the others being stoneware and porcelain. It is opaque, soft and porous unless covered completely with glaze. The firing temperatures can be low - 800ºC or high - 1200ºC, when it starts to vitrify, becoming stoneware.

  • Sgraffito

    A layer of slip on a piece of pottery is scratched through to reveal a different colour clay or body beneath.

  • Slip

    A mixture of clay and water mixed together to the consistency of single cream. Used with metal oxides to produce different colours for decoration and to dip pots for an overall coating. Slip can also be trailed, sponged, stencilled, poured and painted onto the pot; and for binding clay surfaces and casting.