RAKU KILN ADAPTION
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 the…
History Gang at the Museum
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 Saxon…
SHOW ROOM
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 boxes…
BOGNOR COASTAL ART TRAIL ( bcat ).
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 from…
Busman’s holiday
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 as…
chichester art trail
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 different…
first event of the year
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 all…
Ash glaze saga
The saga has yielded a result, the first pots using the ‘ Bake house ash glaze ‘ are out and very nice they are too.
It’s a mugs game
Making a mug each for the volunteers on Wednesday 25 mugs.
An Ash glaze saga
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 on…
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