Almost a decade ago I began my journey in ceramics after a dream I had of an elderly potter living in my childhood home village. Pottery quickly became a pursuit, a love and a passion for story telling, which this craft offers. I found a way to collect wood from single specie trees which I then make into tree ash glazes. I’ve studied and explored ancient traditions and techniques, working with some of the UK’s leading contemporary ceramicists and institutions. I was driven simply by obsession, not knowing where it would lead me.

I have worked alongside potters, anthropologists, archaeologists as well as artists at the Oxford Anagama Kilns, Cornwall and Devon, England and across Egypt in projects assisting and leading wood firings, teaching courses, lecturing within university institutions and as a consultant in research programmes, such as with the ancient Egyptian pigment.

"Joseph Bull has extensive experience not only of collecting wood from single species of  trees to make ash glazes but also as a consultant to anthropologists and chemists in Cairo in their  investigation of the lost ancient blue pigment made from  Egyptian paste.  In the UK he has worked alongside potters and archaeologists as well as artists at the Oxford Anagama Kilns and in Cornwall and Devon  He takes part in projects assisting and leading wood firings, teaching courses, lecturing within university.

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