the blessed round
I was lucky enough to be invited to collaborate on The Blessed Round, a cantata by Rebecca Bilkau, set to music by Helen Roe, which had its first performance on […]
I was lucky enough to be invited to collaborate on The Blessed Round, a cantata by Rebecca Bilkau, set to music by Helen Roe, which had its first performance on […]
Modern life has made some things a lot easier for the studio potter – like paperwork and photography: I’ve just photographed work for a new show at Gallery57 in Arundel. […]
Many thanks to everyone who supported the Artists’ Open House at the Dulwich Festival. We had a great couple of weekends, with a real feeling of community in dear old […]
I was given these lovely buttons recently. I’m not sure how many families pass down the button box, a store of old, new, useful, ugly – and some gorgeous – […]
Proust famously had his bedroom cork-lined to keep out the noise of his neighbours. Eric Packer, in DeLillo’s Cosmopolis, has his limo cork-lined, too. I’ve been musing that focus, […]
This week I’ve been an electrician, a stone-cutter, a photographer, an illustrator, a gardener, a marketer, a critic, and an entrepreneur. Well, sort of. Mending my kiln was the […]
New research in ceramic practice at the University of Westminster focusses on the relationship between ceramics and museums. The conference, Ceramics in the Expanded Field opened yesteday with a private […]
I was writing about text threads last week – the online kind, where a conversation gets linked together by a virtual thread. The metaphor of threading‘s pretty universal: used in […]
I got sidetracked this week by the re-birth of email newsletters. The right ones can be great – a kind of mini-magazine you can stack up to read at leisure. […]
I will be at West Dean Craft Fair by the time you read this. I’m really looking forward to being in the gardens, (here’s the West Dean Gardens blog), near […]