‘‘Working with ceramics materials and processes is like being a marriage broker, a matchmaker. What I aim for is that everything blends together like it could only be that way, creating a lasting marriage. Only sometimes is that successful. Sometimes divorce is the best conclusion; incompatibility is the prelude to the scrapheap.”

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Owen Rye is known internationally for being at the forefront of the contemporary woodfiring movement. Through his artwork, his writing and his teaching many ceramic artists have been inspired to follow the woodfirer’s path.