Ian Drummond

Ian Drummond established Greenhill Pottery in 1980 to produce fine stoneware with both aesthetic and practical qualities. His glazing and decorative methods are based on Chinese tradition. However, Ian has broadened from this starting point in a most distinctive way - drawing upon experience gained whilst acquiring a degree in architecture, a diploma of art and training in the practice of Sumie painting. He uses oxidising and reducing atmospheres in the firing cycle where his pottery is fired in a gas fuelled, brick kiln to Cone 10 temperature (1305 degrees Celsius). Oxides of chrome, cobalt, copper and iron are used in the feldspathic glazes which gives the works their distinctive colours and gorgeous gloss.