On my last full day in England I took myself off to London's South Bank to visit Tate Modern, but first I wanted to find Contemporary Applied Arts again. It took me about fifteen dawdling minutes from Waterloo to find the gallery on Southwark street and it's only about a block south of Tate Modern and the Thames. This is the link to the CAA…
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…
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…
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,…
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…