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Messums Wiltshire Sculpture and pots

Outside the vast barn that is Messums Wiltshire there are sculptures displayed, waiting for collectors. Our first encounter was with ceramic artist, sculptor and painter Sandy Brown's 'Temple'. Commissioned by Chatsworth House two years ago it now enjoys a prominent home by this gallery's entrance. The tile-covered house has one door and coloured glass circular windows in the domed ceiling. Flamboyantly painted, the space is…

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October 26th, 2017

Art shows / travel

Judy Pfaff at Messums

Earlier this year my sister Mary sent me information on a major ceramics show that she'd just seen. Material: Earth A Survey of Ceramics was presented at a newly opened Art Centre in Tisbury, Wiltshire, just down the road from her home in Salisbury. The catalogue listing of a fine collection of mainly 21st Century English ceramics was fascinating, but of equal interest is the…

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October 25th, 2017

Family / travel

Salisbury

Since my last visit to England my sister Mary and her husband John have moved from the country into a smaller house in Salisbury. It's hard to imagine a more perfect city for a retired couple. Their house is five minutes from the central market square, the railway station and the cathedral where Mary is a steward. Our mum lived right in the Cathedral Close,…

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October 23rd, 2017

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Richard Wilson

Art shows / English artists / English Pottery / travel

Other pots at Contemporary Ceramics Centre

Every time I go to this fine pottery gallery in the heart of London I can't resist taking photos of the pots that appeal to me. I was pleased to find a couple more pieces by Paul Jackson, the potter whose work I'd enjoyed in 'Beside the Wave' that morning. Someone else will certainly be drawn to different work but here I am showing…

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October 22nd, 2017

Art shows / English artists / English Pottery / Soda Firing / travel

Jack Doherty

After finding 'Beside the Wave' gallery at Primrose Hill I took the tube south from Chalk Farm to Tottenham Court Road. As every potter visiting Britain knows, that's the stop for the Contemporary Ceramics Centre at 63 Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3BF, across from the British Museum. Thinking of taking a selfie to prove I was there, a Vancouver artist friend of Jackie Frioud (Salt glaze…

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October 22nd, 2017

Gillian McMillan combines a true love for birds, a fine eye for colour, hands which have learnt to mould clay, and a free-flying imagination ready to form a bird into a jug, or a jug into a bird. Either way, the combination of bird form and jug shape is without pretence.