Taja

Taja came over to UK from his native country Japan to study oil painting and settled in Devon over 40 years ago. He was inspired by many potters in the south west, so he started making pots using his friend’s pottery workshop. He is largely self-taught. Taja found that slab and coil built pottery suited him the most. He started experimenting with porcelain clay about 20 years ago after being inspired by the enormous blue porcelain wall tiles at a new Japanese airport. He was particularly drawn to the water-like quality of the blue glaze.

A grant from Arts Council England in 2008 enabled him to develop his original blue porcelain glazes for his sculptural slab-built porcelain pieces as well as tableware. With this grant he tested over 200 different glazes.

His inspirations usually come from the shapes of off-cut slabs. He creates small sculptural slab-built porcelain pieces using these off-cut slabs. The blue colour of the glazes come from a small amount (0.8%) of iron oxide in a clear glaze which transforms from orange to blue in reduction firing in his gas kiln.

He likes to create work where he just follows the nature of clay.

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Bees Cereal Bowl TJ64Y546
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Bees Vase TJ64Y548
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Bees Vase TJ64Y547
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Lovers Boat at Night TJ64Y522
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Two Flowers TJ64Y519
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Dartmoor Pony TJ64Y525
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Love Bird TJ64Y527
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Tree of Life TJ64Y528
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Flying Birds TJ64Y526
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Celebration TJ64Y524
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Two Flowers TJ64Y518
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Swimming Fish TJ64Y520
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Bees Large Mug TJ64Y532
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Bees Small Mug TJ64Y535
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Bees Small Mug TJ64Y538
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Bees Large Mug TJ64Y530
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Bees Large Mug TJ64Y534
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Bees Cereal Bowl TJ64Y541
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Bees Small Mug TJ64Y540
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Bees Cereal Bowl TJ64Y545
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Bird and Tree TJ64Y523
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Bees Large Mug TJ64Y529
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Bees Large Mug TJ64Y531
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Bees Small Mug TJ64Y539
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Bees Small Mug TJ64Y536
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Bees Cereal Bowl TJ64Y543
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Bees Large Mug TJ64Y533
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Bees Cereal Bowl TJ64Y542
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Bees Cereal Bowl TJ64Y544
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Bees Small Mug TJ64Y537
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Adam and Eve TJ64Y521
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Boat TJ64Y514
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Three Flowers TJ64Y511
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Plants and Snails TJ64Y506
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Lovers TJ64Y513
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Boat TJ64Y515
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