Do Not Adjust Your Set
“Out of order” transmission test card plate. First attempt but you can see what I mean about the shiny glaze, it’s all wrong on this piece. Back to the drawing …
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The Tiles I Love
The tiles I love! Shown here with paper grout about the same thickness as the fags I used to roll when I smoked.Test card….not good so no photograph even, but …
The Impossible Commission
This is in response to an item at Linda Starr’s. She has just fired her new kiln for the first time successfully. This is a salutary story of how not …
Transmission Test Card B
Oh no, another repeat on the box……we interrupt programs and return to the test card for the foreseeable future. I am properly obsessed.This is the second version, I have loaded …
Test Card, Simple Pleasures
At last the test card transmission plate has arrived. In March I was beginning this piece of work in my head and then I wrote about it in April. I …
Finished tiles and other things
At long last the tiles are finished, they have been a good exercise to do and have given me the structure for the next big jar that I need to …
Recession Proof Pottery
Above is the bottom of the flat dishes I have been making today. All the ray dishes I made last month had recession proof stamped underneath them too. I use …
Porstmouth Harbour to Andalucia
Saturday evening at Portsmouth dock; we are taking the night crossing to St Malo and the car is loaded to the gunnels as usual, mainly with pottery materials. Everyone thinks …
A Long Drive to the South
I am packing up for the drive south. We have an overnight stop in the north of Spain in a monastery on Sunday night, arriving for vespers! We board the …
Picnic in the Forest 1950’s
Isn’t this a great photograph! It is my Mother with her parents, circa 1950’s. It would have been taken by my Auntie Barbara who had a very good eye for …
Annette Messager
There is nothing remotely regular about the exhibitions I see and post on this blog and I should write up more on the exhibitions I see, however, for now, read …
May Day in Sussex
The sun has been out and Bill is sunbathing here, a bit overexposed so you can’t make out the spots on his tummy, I will try harder with my new …