Work

I have had so much work to glaze and fire, that I started back in the Autumn. I have been rather quiet on the blog front because of this, I am afraid.

Leaves before firing

Unfired torso

It never fails to amaze me, the surprise you get when you open the kiln for the first time. I am hopeless and end-up sneaking a peak under the lid when it cools to 100 degrees! I never know how the pieces will come out. I make a rough guess at the colour, but the reaction is always different to what I expect.

Opening the kiln

Fired pieces in the kiln

There is a real mixture of work from exhibition and gallery pieces to Etsy shop work and my experiments with making jewellery.

Merry Christmas everyone! X

Merry Christmas everyone!

Have a wonderful holiday,

All the very best

Lit X

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

The Arter are at Handmade Christmas, O2

A HUGE thank you to The Arter  for including some of my work at 'Handmade Christmas' in the O2, London.

Arter display

I have never been to the craft fair, but it looks wonderful. Tickets are only £5. It is being held on 13/14/15 December 2013, at the O2. There are hundreds of the best contemporary crafters and artisan food producers under one roof, with free clinics and workshops for the whole family.

Good luck Paula and Rachael, have a lovely time.

Pitt Rivers

We had a  lovely day a couple of weeks ago, visiting Pitt Rivers in Oxford. We met up with Harvey and had a great family outing.

I thoroughly recommend a visit, if you have not been before, or for a while.

Here are a few of my favourite photos.

Cake International

In my series of inspiring days out with Kate, we have just been to Cake International at the NEC Birmingham!

LOTS of yummy cakes to see. A selection of my favourite can be seen below. We were also thrilled to watch our heroine, Mary Berry make various Christmas treats.

Huge thank you to Kate for taking me and organising our day out.

Gallery 54, Ross-On-Wye

Great day out yesterday. Many thanks to Ian for taking me and my work.

We visited a lovely little gallery in Ross. My work has been there for a number of years now. It is Gallery 54, and is at the end of the High Street. Sue Williams, who is great, owns and runs it. We also met the very excited Lulu! A very sweet little terrier. 

Very exciting, my first 'heads' are in a gallery.

If you fancy a day out, Ross-On-Wye is a beautiful market town in rural south Herefordshire. We had an excellent lunch at a little country pub a couple of miles along country lanes, called The Lough Pool Inn.

Inspirational : Artist books (Photographic)

Really enjoying making this 'Inspirational' series of blogs! I am so enjoying re-finding all my old favourites.

This is a collection of photographic artists that I discovered way back in my college days, when I studied photography and art.

'Kingswood' by Susan Derges, is my first book. It is a culmination of a year long residency by the artist, in a woodland, in Kent. The book is a collection of photograms and pin-hole images. Susan Derges is a very exciting, experimental artist, who also made a very innovative series River Taw and the Under the Moon, creating prints in the water at night. In 2003 she was commissioned by the Eden Project to create a series of glass windows.

'Beauty of Darkness' by Connie Imboden is a beautiful collection of her photographic work. They explore the transformation and mutation of the human form floating in dark water.

'Head On' contains the exciting work of Cai Guo-Qiang, the very famous Chinese artist. It is a book-within-a-book (a tiny book is inlaid in the cover). The project was for the Deutsche Bank and reflects both his own heritage and Berlin's, with gunpowder and fireworks. There are also 99 life-sized wolves and a glass wall.

My final photographic book is 'Explorations along an Imaginary Coastline' by Martha Casanave. A stunning book depicting the beauty of the Californian Coast. I love her  imaginative pinhole images of the seascape.

Other blogs in the 'Inspirational' series -

Inspirational : Work books

Inspirational : Work books (Not ceramics)

Inspirational : Myths and Legends

Inspirational: Garden Books 1

Inspirational: Garden Books 2