 In 1958 he was introduced to making stoneware, and since that time he has devoted his life mainly to the research of decorating stoneware pots with figurative drawings and glazing them with ash glazes.By using ash glazes he joined the tradition of craft potters established in the early decades of the twentieth century by Bernard Leach, followed by Katherine Pleydell-Bouverie.Pursuing that tradition, in recent years he has solved the problem of an excess of calcium in ash from trees and has been using ash obtained from bean plants—which is higher in potassium and permits the drawings to be 'held' at stoneware temperatures, c. 1250 degrees Celsius.