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Aberdeen, United Kingdom
I am Katie Bryce and I study three dimensional design at Grays School of Art in Aberdeen, focussing on ceramics, glass and jewellery.

At the start of this year I spent 5 months studying in a wee town in Finland named Hämeenlinna. Now I am back in Aberdeen working towards my final year's degree show.

10.05.2011

Natural dyeing

I wanted to see whether I can colour things like ceramic tiles without using a glaze. I went a wee adventure along the old railway line and did some berry picking to get started!


The last two rows of tiles above have been coloured with tea, snowberries, turmeric, paprika, red wine, blackberrries, redberries and beetroot! Now I want to see if concrete would accept being coloured by nature too?

The first few are glazes that didn't reach the correct temp in the kiln as the elements were broken! They did however reach a high enough temperature to melt the glass I was experimenting with which I'll definitely try out again on a larger scale. The blue one in the middle row has been attacked with shoe polish while the two below were smoke fired in our hobo bin fire.

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