“Wood-fire artists seek an elusive beauty. Rather than uniform application of glaze or a representative painted pattern that quickly are taken in and fully understood by our senses, the asymmetry of wood-fired surface decoration lingers outside the grasp of memory.

Like a new acquaintance who you get to know in stages, wood-fired art reveals itself in stages, divulging new depths with every viewing.

Connoisseurs and practitioners speak of the surprising, unpredictable quality of the work – surprising as the sudden flash of colour from the wings of a bird in flight to the rich colours of wet stone at a river’s edge.” 

~ Japanese Wood-Fired Ceramics, 2005.