more about mistakes
Opening the kiln is well-known to be the most traumatic moment in a potter’e studio. It’s the moment when your guesses about how a pot will look are finally resolved. […]
Tag Archives: porcelain
sea and cloud
I’ve been firing work for Kathrin Bohm to take to Leipzig, for the International Village Show she’s curating and showing work in. She brought me these Blackcurrent Sodas, made from […]
post-christmas wash-up?
I hope you all, dear readers, had an excellent Christmas and are looking forward to 2015. Thanks you all so much for coming to read my blog, I hope you […]
deferred gratification
Potters, more than some other artists, live in a world of deferred gratification. Especially with porcelain, you just don’t know what a pot will look like until it’s glaze fired. […]
unreal objects, for a change
I’ve been updating my website recently, with projects like imaginary tea sets. I try and say it with pictures over at my website, but I’ve been including more non-ceramic work […]
grass, and green hills
I’ve been scything in the Lee Valley – Walthamstow Marshes – recently, under the aegis of haystacks.net. Experienced scythers can cut faster than a strimmer: with the hay in its […]
shellac writing
I’ve finally got around to trying out shellac resist on raw clay. Shellac is made by the Lac beetle – she exudes it, and it has been used for a […]
Contemporary Nantgarw/ Nantgarw gyfoes
My talk last week at Nantgarw went well – the exhibition looked really great, and best of all, it felt like home, even down to the welshcakes. Many thanks to […]
watch this.. craft in commerce
I’ve been running ceramic workshops alongside Kathrin Bohm‘s Contraptions exhibition at Peckham Platform. We’ve been spinning colour onto bought china plates using a whirler contraption. The results were great – […]
show season
Well, show season has started with a great first Artists’ Open House weekend for the Dulwich Festival! The virtual tour can now be supplemented by an image of me in […]
