I have just returned from a lovely nine-day holiday in England. Of course I used the delivery of jugbirds to Primavera Gallery as the excuse for another trip across the pond, but I also wanted to spend time with some of my extended family over there. Luckily for me my brother Bill and his wife Lottie live in St. Neots, a short bus ride from…
Here are the other four jugbirds from the recent firing. There's a Stellar's Jay, our local Blue Jay. He's a noisy fellow! Then I've made a new Kookaburra to remind us of our amazing trip Down Under. We saw the Rainbow Lorikeets in a big park in Melbourne. …
The top area of the kiln was reserved for my latest jugbird creations. Jeremy Waller of Primavera, in Cambridge, asked me to bring along some English birds and some more exotic ones. So I now have to carefully pack them up in a cardboard box that is just slightly smaller than the allowed carry-on size, ready for my flight to Gatwick on Friday.…
The visiting artists had to wait a couple of weeks for me and my tile-painting friends to fill the kiln but finally it was fired and opened on Sunday. My previous blog shows the TriCity Potters' second batch of tiles and my next will show my new exotic jug birds, but I have photos of all the new plates here. Eric continues to enjoy…
My latest glaze firing was emptied yesterday so the recent 'raiders' and tile-painters can finally see how their work turned out. Alan took photos this afternoon so I shall enjoy posting a blog about my newest exotic jug birds, and another to show the painted oval plates. But first here is a photo of the finished tiles painted by the small group of TriCity Potters…