a friend comes to paint
We visited the Pierra Della Francesca museum down the road in San Sepulcro. It was very inspiring to learn more about the local area and what great artists were working here four to six hundred years ago. We saw Leonardo […]
Udu drums for the house
I’s always good to have instruments in the house so you can make music of some sort.
open studios in May
We had a lovely day opening the studio to friends and strangers, next time I will put a kettle in there for tea save me running up and down the hill!
subtle surface calm
Slip and oxides, low relief. still a pot though. The forms may start to emerge as 3D forms, not a pot. Later.
Tree, House, Land
The sketch book I made last year is more relevant now in this work. It is only simple imagery from my head, unlike life studies I continue with to keep my hand and eye involved in the world around. The […]
Winter into Spring 2017
Nearly all unfired clay. So oxides (mainly copper or cobalt) not showing yet, although I am preferring the simplicity of white form, and will use only oxides to define the marks and potential words (names of pears and apples) for […]
Things that still excite me
Natural materials, and processes reveal a truth in the physical properties of the materials. Clay has a tendency to become functional and decorative in the purpose which I like but sometimes I prefer just the sculptural form. and there are so […]