At 10am on Friday there was a scheduled tour of the old Hycroft Pottery factory which operated in competition with Medalta from the thirties until the sixties. It is full of amazing machinery and a vast circular kiln all slowly rotting away. For some years the building was used as the home of the Ceramic Residency programme as it started out. We are SO lucky to be working in the brand new facility next to the Medalta museum complex.While I waited for the kiln again I threw some mugs and bowls to fill spaces in the next salt kiln.

Finally in the late afternoon Aaron deemed the kiln cool enough! 

Sadly it is now 10pm Sunday night and the college security guy will come and turf me out. Internet doesn’t work well at the studio so I plan to just write in the evenings. That way I can avoid carrying my MacBook each day and perhaps walk more. We’ve been lucky with rides from other artists mostly, taxi shared when not. We had a few seriously rainy and cold days but this weekend has been superbly sunny.

more pics tomorrow!