Author Archives: Tim Bartell

This year’s art trail was back at it’s usual time of year after covid forced it into late summer last year. The organization with a new team was excellent, much more signage with posters appearing everywhere. we had over 80 visitors to our venue, I hope they all had a good time touring the differentContinue reading “chichester art trail”

My first event will be at the new POP up shop in Bognor by the arcade opposite the Regis centre, also very close to a cocktail bar. The exhibition sales etc will start at 10.00 on Tuesday 12th April . I will be there with a full range of pots to look at in allContinue reading “first event of the year”

The saga has yielded a result, the first pots using the ‘ Bake house ash glaze ‘ are out and very nice they are too.

Making a mug each for the volunteers on Wednesday 25 mugs.

When I volunteer at the Weald and Downland museum on Wednesdays, I talk to the bakers and have scrounged some bread and a fantastic biscuit, it dawned on me that they were using one species wood in the oven. The hazel is cut from the woodland at the top of the site it grows onContinue reading “An Ash glaze saga”

A woodfiring is a special event, an event that only happens every six months and is a massive investment in time, materials and skill. Tina lets me have space in her big and beautiful kiln, I am not properly up and running at the moment so my pots didn’t take up much space, I hadContinue reading “A FIRING”

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”

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”

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 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”