Category Archives: Pottery and Art
Open Studios 2015
Here are some quick photos of my set-up for South East Open Studios 2015. My work is ceramic, which mankind has been making in one way or another for thousands of years. Yet I took these photos using my mobile … Continue reading
New Work for Open Studios 2015
I’ve been working towards having a new body of work for South East Open Studios 2015. It’s getting close now – I’m open the first two weekends in June. Details of my openings are on my page at SEOS. The … Continue reading
New Work for ArtSpring2015 – Part 2
Yesterday I unpacked the kiln after a glaze firing. As ever I suppose, some good, some not so good. The frustrations were around a couple of pots which I had decorated with underglaze colours just didn’t work out. I followed … Continue reading
Work for ArtSpring 2015
Starting a new season with new inspirations – at least that was the intention. I had some ideas of what I wanted, and some glazes which I hoped would enable that to be realised. Of course the glazes had to … Continue reading
Three Jugs
Finally I’ve made the commitment to participate in South East Open Studios in June this year. Whilst I was at it I took some photos of work which is in the pottery at the moment and chose this image of … Continue reading
Book review: Mid-Range Glazes by John Britt
The vast majority of my pottery is fired to 1200C in an electric kiln. My first kiln was rated to go to 1280, but at the time we were living in a village where the mains voltage barely reached the … Continue reading
Waiter Waiter Percolator
Waiter, waiter, percolator is just about my favourite link in a song – it’s from The Java Jive: I love coffee, I love tea. I love the java jive and it loves me. Well, I have had a few good … Continue reading
Return of Franken-squash
Halloween came and it felt like an appropriate time to investigate the mysterious Franken-squash. This was the name I gave to the hybrid squash which grew on the allotment this year, covered in this previous post. The Kent Potters Association … Continue reading
Posted in Allotment, Food and Cooking, Pottery and Art
Tagged Doug Fitch, Kent Potters Association, puff pastry, pumpkin
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Doug Fitch and Hannah McAndrew
Saturday was the Annual General Meeting of the Kent Potters Association. Normally AGMs are dull administrative meetings to be avoided if at all possible. However, what the KPA does is organise a Master Day demonstration and then sneaks the administrative … Continue reading
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Tagged Demonstration, Doug Fitch, Hannah McAndrew, Kent Potters, pottery
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Comeuppance
It’s been a great week. I volunteer as a mentor with the Princes Trust and this week one of my mentees was presenting her business plan to the Business Launch Group. She was successful and they awarded her the start-up … Continue reading
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