We're already half way into January and it's time to get working in the studio. But when the fog lifted today the temperature climbed to 9℃ so I chose to work in the garden instead. I didn't come inside until 4.30pm so that's an encouraging sign that Winter will pass. There will be plenty of rainy days for me to be inside.. At…
To complete my previous blog, I'd like to add pots by clay artists who are permanent members of Contemporary Applied Arts. This gallery shows the best of British Fine Crafts. This was my final day in England and I was determined to make the most of it, in spite of having picked up one of those beastly colds that one does on a trip…
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…