do not go gentle into that good night..
I’ve been visiting West Norwood Cemetery, one of the Magnificent Seven, to prepare for this year’s Curious Trail. They hold the original records there, in wonderful copperplate, and I’ve been […]
Tag Archives: Dylan Thomas
talks on ‘the art of writing’
I’ve signed up for some great talks on the art of writing at the Association of Art Historians. The next one’s 26 Nov 2012 in their place near Farringdon. There’s […]
making obliquely
I’ve been reading about obliquity – how “our goals are best achieved when we approach them indirectly”. The author, John Kay, is an economist, and applies this mostly to science […]
the pink and the black at Art in Action
Here’s a collaboration: my plates, a visitor’s pink meringues, at Art in Action last week. The plates are from the stack, all are inscribed with lines from Dylan Thomas’s In […]
not for ambition or bread
I spent a long weekend in Devon selling work at the Contemporary Craft Fair and camping in the rain. Actually, quite enjoyable: but it reminded me that I never really […]
close reading of images, poems, pots
I’ve been thinking about why writing on pots works, in preparation for contributing to a talk at the CAA on the 7th June (by the way, come!). One of the […]
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