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LINDA MANNING
BOERNE

The ability to try something new holds me to clay as my chosen art
form. Trying new and risky things keeps my work from being static
and me bored.

In this series I’ve chosen to work in the raku and saggar process.
Using bare clay with no glazes to add pattern or color, instead, I
paint with organics, fire, smoke, temperature, and time. The raku
firing process has been around since the 1580’s. One of its main
characteristics is removing the clay piece from the kiln when it
is at its firing height. Saggar is a container used during the firing
process to enclose or protect ware being fired inside a kiln. This
firing method creates confined atmospheres within the container or
saggar which, depending upon the organics or chemicals you use,
will create various marks and colors on the ware.

I suppose clay can be a metaphor to our lives. We don’t have full
control of any outcome but through the journey, decisions we make,
corners we turn, doors we go through, eventually leads to every
moment…and everything that is our story.

LEFT: RIGHT:

Fruits of the Desert Fruits of the Rivert
2022 2022
Ceramic stack; saggar fired utilizing aluminum Ceramic stack; saggar fired utilizing aluminum
foil as the container that holds the ware with the foil as the container that holds the ware with
organics and chemicals. The atmosphere forms the organics and chemicals. The atmosphere
within the saggar when firing creating the colors forms within the saggar when firing creating
and marks on each sphere. Assembled on steel the colors and marks on each sphere.
rod with cholla cactus limb. Assembled on steel rod with cypress knee..
10” x 40” 10” x 33”
8lb 6 lb
1200 $1200