00:00These will be vases for a workshop that I'm holding in August.
00:08Okay, so where do you get your inspiration from?
00:14I think a lot of my inspiration comes from around here, so from on the farm.
00:21Always loved chooks, I think chooks are always a nice inspiration. Patterns, colours,
00:30the weather.
00:34So do you have series as such, as in do you have your chicken series or your guinea fowl series?
00:40I've got the guinea fowl range, if you like, so that was quite popular. That took off,
00:46done that on bowls, teacups, plates, a few dinner sets that people have commissioned.
00:55Pink Chex has been a really popular sort of line, like a gingham style for a lot of the country
01:02homes.
01:07How many years have you been doing this for?
01:10Well, overall I think if we go back to when I first started, I'd be at least 20 years since
01:15studying at primary school, but probably at a semi-professional capacity for about seven years now.
01:23Okay, so once we've centred our clay, we then need to start bringing up the walls.
01:30So I'm applying pressure from the inside to keep my walls straight and then from the outside to get
01:37the height.
01:40You can make it look easy, Salmon, but it's definitely not. So what are some of the points
01:45that you need to remember when you're making a pot on a wheel like that?
01:49You need to practice patience. It definitely takes time. You need to work on your pressure.
01:57So too hard, you're going to push your piece off centre. Not hard enough, you're not going to get
02:03the height out of your piece that you need. And it's really just practice. Practice, practice, practice.
02:11I would be in here more days than I'm not on the wheel.
02:18Just making.
02:21So what do you get out of it? What keeps you going?
02:25I really enjoy the selling side. Not just about making money, but I think that I enjoy the idea
02:33of having my pieces in someone's house. Whether it's a bowl or a plate or anything like that.
02:42There's always food involved. There's always family. There's friends. There's memories that are created
02:48around dinner tables. And I like knowing that I'm a part of that.
02:55So I'm just going to try and get some more height out of this one.
03:11So what's your next series going to be? Oh, that's a very good question.
03:16So I'm doing beef week next year. I have a stall there. So I'm thinking that I might try and
03:23incorporate
03:25something, some kind of design into a bit of a beef week special. But I've got a few ideas floating
03:31around, but I haven't narrowed anything down yet. So watch this space.
03:35So what type of cattle do you have here? We've got Brahman mainly here. But we have been putting
03:44shorthorn bulls over our Brahman heifers. So that's been quite a fun venture for us. We're getting some
03:52good results. So you might have a bit of a Brahman thing? Potentially. Potentially. And I have just
04:00purchased a speckle carpable. So there might be a bit of black and white theme going on there as well.
04:10All right. So I'll just go and smooth out this surface. I just want a nice smooth area so that
04:18people can paint and put their design on. And then once this is finished today, it'll go in and dry
04:27really slowly for about a week. Then it'll be fired to 1000 degrees. And then we will take it to
04:35the
04:35workshop. People will paint their vase. And then I will fire them again to 1280 degrees. And then it
04:42will be finished and ready to be a lovely vase in someone's home.
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