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José Carvalho

  • Ceramicist
  • London, United Kingdom
  • Rising Star
José Carvalho Ceramicist
Contact
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Hours:
By appointment only
Phone:
+44 7470506202
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The travelling ceramicist

  • • José used to work in the media business
  • • He specialises in volcanic ash glazing
  • • He learned his craft from masters across the world

José Carvalho is a self-taught craftsman born in Portugal and currently living in England where he runs his own workshop in a railway arch in West London’s Ravenscourt Park since 2016. What started as a hobby at the end of 2007 soon grew into a passion that pushed him to become a full-time ceramicist. Travelling the world with his previous career in the media business, he learned his craft spending time with potters across the globe, visiting museums, reading books and experimenting firsthand pottery making. Made using wheel throwing and volcanic glazing, Carvalho’s geometrical ceramics are renowned for mimicking seascapes and landscapes. Always striving for perfection, he does not hesitate to fire his vessels up to four or five times to obtain the desired textures.

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Works

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Black Moon Jar

José Carvalho's wheel thrown and decorated jar is made from black stoneware clay, with multiple black slips, oxides and volcanic glazes. The piece was fired at 1290 degrees Celsius with multiple glaze firings.

Diameter 25 cm

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Gold Half-Moon

Gold Half-Moon – Hand-built bowl made out of porcelain clay, decorated with recycled materials (metals and clays), multiple coloured slips, oxides and volcanic glazes. Fired to 1290 degrees Celsius with multiple glaze firings.

Diameter 25 cm

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Seascape

José Carvalho's wheel thrown and decorated vessel is made from stoneware clay with multiple coloured slips, oxides and volcanic glazes. The piece was fired four times at a high temperature.

Diameter 25 cm

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The Pink Moon

José Carvalho's wheel thrown and decorated vase is made from stoneware clay and porcelain with multiple coloured slips and volcanic glazes. Trapped air between each firing creates the bubble effect. The piece was fired at 1290 degrees Celsius with multiple glaze firings.

Diameter 25 cm

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Abstract Moon Jar

This wheel thrown and decorated jar is made out of stoneware clay with multiple coloured slips, oxides and volcanic glazes. The piece was fired at 1290 degrees Celsius with multiple firings.

Diameter 47 cm

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