For the last few weeks I’ve been amongst the pots; mid century pots to be precise; I have visited a potter who would throw 250 pots a day at Milton Head Pottery. I’ve had a masterclass in the mind set … Read More
Good Housekeeping (Death Changes the Landscape) So far it’s about: gender, role play, stereo types, traditions of the last generation, wearing the wrong clothes, wanting to wear men’s clothes, expectations, aspirations, sex, angst, drama, loss, South Sea Bubble suits, kipper … Read More
Little Heart Breakers: The tiles are now depicting little pictures that are references to childhood and adolescence; a lot of time spent practising handwriting, drawing faces and thinking up children’s names. Found a load of school work where the margins … Read More
Text sketch; using the poem
A verse from a poem my father wrote to my mother; to be included in ‘Little Heartbreakers’ I’ve always been too busy But not, if she knew it, so busy That a day has gone by without I felt something … Read More
The preliminary plans for ‘Little Heart Breakers’; a picture on polydraw using pen and ink. These very small tiles were made by Milton Head Pottery but ended up at home. I remember sticking earring clips on the back on some … Read More
In the 1960s, it is possible to avoid the presence of inquisitive child artists in the pub; no child, no matter how precocius, is allowed in the public bar. The older artist can hold forth on the tyranny of the … Read More
Where have all the potteries gone,long time passing Given freshly fired and glazed presents is like being given delicious food.; or at least something to put it on. Visiting a potter always meant being given something lovely, even if it … Read More
Skip forward a few years and here she is, sweet sixteen; our young artist. Raised in the Sixties and living the Seventies. One day He cometh, the one raised in the Twenties and living the Reformation; he is ‘The Assessor’. … Read More
Artists are not always in for visitors. “Fear not”, the older and wiser artist says, “artists are show offs no matter what they say, otherwise what is the sodding point; all you need to know they will have put in … Read More
Visiting artists come in many guises; talking artists were a wonder to a child. These artists began by talking on the telephone. The child already acts as the telephonist; diverting calls; small master of the procrastinating deadline; the mysterious unavailability … Read More
