Sutton has been working in extremely harsh weather conditions down West. Despite this, this small intimate collection, does not disappoint. Why? Because Taylor’s ability to move with the unpredictable,  capricious and uncontrollable nature of the technique is astonishing. The window of opportunity when lustres form is tiny. The temperature in the kiln must be held at precisely the right temperature for the particular glaze being used, in exactly the correct degree of reduction (absence of oxygen). High humidity favours lustre development and high winds can be a problem in a combustion kiln. Despite enormous advances in kiln technology, digital temperature control and glaze analysis the process continues to defy reliable commercial production, companies and individual potters generally abandon the process discouraged by the seemingly capricious and uncontrollable nature of the technique and its accompanying failures.