Author Archives: Tim Bartell

Weald and Downland Advent Fair 25/26 November Thank you to all my lovely visitors who came and saw me over the weekend and to those who bought pots. Your support keeps me going and able to carry on making. Thank you. The calm long before the storm

I have fired my new wood kiln to stoneware and now I have fired to earthenware, a new set of worries come into play. I think that avoiding reducing the pots is nearly impossible, the wood goes into the firebox and always reduces before it burns properly and clear. It’s just the way it is,Continue reading “WOODFIRING EARTHENWARE”

It’s time for open studios, 22/23 and 29/30 July 10.30-5. Pop in and see us at venue 17 , 7 Ancton Close, Middleton on sea po22 6nd. We will have Gaye Clear with us exhibiting her paintings , pick up a guide and your weekend is sorted. Just follow the signs , we have otherContinue reading “BOGNOR COASTAL ART TRAIL”

With Chichester open studios coming up 22/23 and 29/30 April and on the bank holiday Monday a raku firing. The burner had been mucking about and was throwing out a very yellow flame usually this is a reduction flame . This is not good for fuel saving and was making the pots reduce from theContinue reading “RAKU KILN ADAPTION”

It has amused me for sometime , that I have ended up as a museum attraction, but not always the old exhibit from the 50’s. I did a session for the History Gang all of whom won’t know what the millennium was like let alone the 1950’s. My session with them was ‘Making a SaxonContinue reading “History Gang at the Museum”

Earth has not anything to show more fair, Dull would he be of soul who could pass by the showroom at the bottom of my garden. I find it hard to believe that Wordsworth wrote about my new showroom a good 200 years before it was even built, incredible. We needed to store our boxesContinue reading “SHOW ROOM”

The setting up of the show at the Pop in Boggers, to showcase the trail. New for this year is bcat, a trail of artists on a seven mile coastal strip from Pagham to Elmer, a varied group of artists along the coast, To highlight the trail a show was organised with the help fromContinue reading “BOGNOR COASTAL ART TRAIL ( bcat ).”

MY holiday this year was two weeks in Sunny/wet Devon on a firing course at Barn Pottery, with Nic Collins and Sabine Nemet in Moretonhamstead ( Moreton for short, it’s one of the longest village names in England though not as long as the Welsh village names that take as much time to say asContinue reading “Busman’s holiday”