His current work falls into three main categories:

Handbuilt
Using pressmoulds and unprocessed red earthenware brick clay, this work (from 5'=27") is open-textured and unglazed. The use of coarse lumpy clay with its impurities is ideal for creating a surface quality that is craggy scored and eroded. Colours range from oranges to reds and mauves to dark browns, with black iron eruptions - the latter being the result of high temperature firing. Shiny steel or brass wire collars on selected pieces contrast brilliantly with these rich, rugged surfaces.

Glazed stoneware
Rick Henham began his career making jewellery, and this early training has influenced his other body of ceramic work, thrown, glazed stoneware. Here Henham has created a range of vases and bowls (from 4"-16") with similar forms, but whose smooth and sometimes lustrous surfaces contrast dramatically with those of the earthenware range.
On many of these pieces he uses natural oxide pigment to produce a sophisticated gunmetal black sheen on grogged clay. These bowls and vases have molten glass rims in jewel-like colours-a throw-back to his earlyÊ training - and light years away from theÊ muddy; sludgy colours traditionally associated with stoneware. Other related pieces in this range feature a matt or shiny finish in a variety of tasteful coloured glazes, including black and white.

Salt-glazed stoneware
A smaller, but very attractive range of stoneware (from 4"- 16") has been salt-glazed . This technique produces an extraordinarily distinctive mottled orangepeel surface in a variety of earth colours, dappled with cobalt blue highlights.  

Garden Urns

Flat Dishes with glass

Vases with glass detail

Vases

Collared Urns