Tim Bartell

GLAZING OVER

Some potters like glazing; i am not that keen. It is a necessary process to get lovely pots. I don’t mind the alchemy, mixing it together sieving etc but the actual pouring dipping wiping gets a bit tedious . Tina is going to fire her woodkiln soon, she sells more than me and has runContinue reading “GLAZING OVER”

INSPIRATION

Some people have a very creative mind and need no inspiration, I get a lot of my inspiration from the past. I have always loved history, on a recent visit to Michelham priory I saw these Sussex pots. They are glazed in treacle like glaze made with just the body clay and lead, which givesContinue reading “INSPIRATION”

open studios

As venue 41 of the Chichester art trail , we opened our garden ( safer as Covid still stalks the highways and byways ) to visitors . Two weekends, the first weekend was wet on the Saturday, apart from that it was dry and sunny all the rest of the time. We had 92 visitors.Continue reading “open studios”

FIRST GLAZE

FIRST GLAZE FIRING I managed to make enough pots, in between working on the house, to fire a load of pots .I mixed up bisc and glaze, just to give me enough pots to fire at the Raku part of the open studios. Open studios starts this Saturday, I have been clearing up and tryingContinue reading “FIRST GLAZE”

FIRST FIRING AT WHITECROFT

I havn’t been doing too much making as we are still in the midst of renovations, the Museum shop had run out of bread bakers so took enough time out from renovations to make some. The pot is as you can see very simple, they have to be conditioned, which is painted with olive oilContinue reading “FIRST FIRING AT WHITECROFT”

A NEW CHAPTER BEGINS

Farewell Selsdon ceramics hello Whitecoft pottery. We moved to the coast near Bognor in West Sussex so we couldn’t continue with the old name, our new house is called Whitecroft so we went with that. Because of the move and the small fact that there has been a pandemic, I havn’t been doing too muchContinue reading “A NEW CHAPTER BEGINS”

Introduce Yourself (Example Post)

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