I must confess to having something of a long term aversion to the clunky heavy wood-fire aesthetic.. all that effort (many many hours of stoking a kiln with wood sometimes overnight in dreadful weather) for heavy lumpy inelegant brown pots.... indeed I once asserted that wood firing was simply an exercise engaged in by pyromaniacs who were there for the flames, the firing experience... the pots seemed to be incidental to the whole process. My opinions on wood fire have been changed over the years by my experience of the work of Maria Geszler, Nina Hole, and latterly Ann Linneman’s elegant, delicate porcelain forms brushed by flame and ash..