Raku has become popularly known technique originally in Japan in the sixteenth century in which work is rapidly fired’ and removed from the kiln when glowing hot. A recent development is combustible materials, creating particular colours, textures, and metallic oxides. The earthiness of smoked clay, combined with vibrant coloured glazed and the fried all in one-day.

Raku meaning pleasure, enjoyment, at ease, and the title ‘best in all the world’.