flatness
Flatness is one of the new big things in designing for the Internet. Flatness in art was one of the really big ideas in the 60s, championed by the critic […]
Flatness is one of the new big things in designing for the Internet. Flatness in art was one of the really big ideas in the 60s, championed by the critic […]
Working with clay, you have to get used to delays. You can’t just start making something and carry on until it’s finished. The clay has to be worked on […]
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. […]
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 […]
Last week’s MakeShift conference from the Crafts Council, which I talked about last week on the blog was all about the digital overlap with making. This week’s Peter Dormer lecture […]
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. […]
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 […]