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Reactive-glaze ceramics · Est. fictional 2014

Reef & Kiln

We don't paint our pots. We mix oxides, stack the kiln, and let the fire decide where the celadon pools and the copper crawls. Every piece leaves the studio one of a kind.

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Scroll into the fire

The material is the maker

A reactive glaze is never finished by the potter. It is finished by heat, by ash, by the way two oxides meet at 1,280°C.

Reef & Kiln works in flowing celadons and copper-oxide rust — glazes formulated to move, pool and crackle in the kiln rather than sit flat. We throw small, fire slow, and accept what the fire returns. No two surfaces are the same, and that is the whole point.

Glaze Library

Four living surfaces

Each glaze is a recipe and a behaviour — how it breaks over an edge, where it crawls, what it does to the clay beneath.

Reef Celadon

Translucent sea-green that pools jade in the hollows and runs pale over the rims. Fine craquelure throughout.

Cone 10 reduction

Copper Ash

Wood-ash glaze loaded with copper oxide. Metallic rust where it thins, deep oxblood where it pools.

Cone 10 reduction

Tidewrack

A reactive overlap of celadon under copper — the two crawl into each other like a tide line on wet sand.

Cone 9–10

Bone Frost

A dry matte clay-white that crackles as it cools, leaving a frosted, chalk-soft tooth on the surface.

Cone 6 oxidation

What leaves the studio

Three ways to live with the work

Everyday

Tableware

Open-stock bowls, cups and plates in Reef Celadon and Bone Frost. Built for daily use and the dishwasher.

Bespoke

Commissions

A set thrown, glazed and fired to your brief — dinner service, vases, a single ceremonial vessel.

Hands-on

Workshops

Two-day reactive-glaze intensives. Mix oxides, dip test tiles, read a kiln log, fire your own pieces.

Collections

Small batches, fired to order

Filter by form. Each batch is glazed together so the surfaces share a firing — siblings, not copies.

From the kiln

Pieces & stockists

Reef Celadon

Copper Ash

Tidewrack

Bone Frost

Cone 10

Oxblood

Jade Pool

Stocked at Saltcedar (Byron Bay) · The Long Table (Melbourne) · Field Notes Home (Hobart)

1280°C

Peak firing temperature

38hrs

Full kiln cycle, fire to cool

11batches

Fired each season

1of 1

Every reactive surface

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Tell us what the table should feel like.

Reactive-glaze commissions open in small windows each season. Send the brief — service size, glaze, the room it lives in — and we'll send back a kiln slot and a quote.

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Emailstudio@reefandkiln.example

Studio line+61 7 5000 0000

Find usShed 4, Tallow Creek Road, Northern Rivers NSW