Research
Research at MK Pottery Studio connects the land with the practice, and it is open to anyone who wants to join.
Clay and glazes are found, refined, and made from the materials of Can Brull itself. Each firing of Kujiragama adds a cycle of tests, and each workshop leaves the studio with new samples and notes. There is no finished catalogue yet: this is work in progress, and we publish it as it grows.
Lines of research
Wild clay
Finding, preparing, and firing clay from the land around Can Brull: reading colour and texture in the soil, collecting small samples, cleaning and sieving, shrinkage bars and blends. The first yunomi in Montseny wild clay came out of Kujiragama's first firing.
Take part: Wild Clay workshopNatural glazes
Glazes made from raw materials, test by test, firing after firing: plant ash from the forest, local rocks and clays, practical glaze chemistry and recorded compositions. The intensive with Adele Williams in May 2026 followed the full cycle from collecting to results.
Take part: Natural Glazes IntensiveAsh and wood fire
Watching how flame, ash, and placement change a surface. Kujiragama's first firing ran 84 hours to 1300 °C; the pieces from each shelf are our first map of the kiln's fire paths, and the next firing week in March 2027 will add the second.
Take part: Kujiragama firing week
Research in the calendar
Natural Glazes Intensive
Three days of raw materials, ash, and glaze testing with Adele Williams.
Program coming soon
For artists, researchers and teachers
The studio hosts collaborators who want to work on these lines: a firing in Kujiragama for a body of work, a glaze or clay study with the studio's kilns and materials, or a workshop you would like to teach here. Write to us with what you have in mind and when.