Saturday, December 31, 2011

This is the last day of 2011 and I will be happy to wake tomorrow with a sense of new beginnings.  I will not wake with a sore head, as people often like to, fair go to them, no, I want to face 2012 with a clear head and some good energy and start as I mean to go on.  I won't even bleat about my failure to blog as often as I'd wished.  Life has been busy and fulfilling, people are what matter, enough said, right??
I may get some posting done today though, given the leisurely pace of this hot and sunny day, lying about with the iPad and a cold lunch seems a good option, before I sweep and hose down my studio in readiness for the new, bigger and better kiln. I am about to pop out to buy myself a couple of Adirondack style deck chairs to sit outside the studio, soak up the evening warmth, with a G and T in hand, smell the roses (and so what if they need a good prune) and be happy with my lot in life.
I have a STACK of work planned for next year, lots of artist in residencies and teaching opportunities, lots of firm work planned. Lucky me.  One such plan which is underway is to make a large body of work of forms from the same mould - a big hemisphere 45 cm wide - how many variables can I design in the next year?  Very many is what I anticipate.  Crikey I might even get round to blogging about them!  

Suite One Studio: A 2011 Recap

Great to hear a potter is doing so well ....
Suite One Studio: A 2011 Recap: This past year has been remarkable. I'll start there. My business has evolved in ways I never imagined possible. Just over a year ago I mo...

Monday, August 15, 2011

Introducing ...

Hah!  You think it is INTRODUCING me!  But it isn't!  My eldest son is studying to become a library technician at Central TAFE in Perth and one of their exercises is to develop their own .... yes BLOG.  Emmet is a really good writer, very into detail.  Actually he is a bit like me, more about the process than the end result really.  So for those of you that know him, or are remotely interested in Gundams (best that you look it up or I will not do the subject justice in his eyes) here is the link.  


So proud ..... http://gianthumanoidwarmachine.blogspot.com/

sigh, again - a three blog family!!


The work it nearly killed me to produce thanks to shonky electricity and dodgy kiln door got to CraftACT safely.  I felt kind of shaky for a few mins when I saw this though.




COLOUR

In clay related chit chat among ceramists the subject of 'brown pots' has popped up lately. I think the average person who is a non potter thinks Pottery=brown pots circa 1975 - a tad dated, often dull. With so many shades of brown, the best of which are either connected to food or some evocative imager - Cafe au Lait, mocha, chocolate, donkey, burnt, sand and so on - brown can be made to sound quite attractive.  This intro is just by way of saying, I have friends who make waaaay colourful stuff too. Here are some images of work recently seen in the CAAWA Selective Exhibition at Heathcote Gallery, Applecross, Western Australia.  The teapots below above are by my friend and neighbour Trish Scambler.  Her husband Stewart makes irresistable woodfired brown pots hehe.  http://www.ceramicartswa.asn.au/gallery/trish-scambler




This wildly, vivid and glam lady is on a vessel by Robyn Lees, now based in Margaret River, Western Australia http://www.margaretrivergallery.com.au/robynlees.html. I've attended a brilliant workshop with Robyn - she had so much to share and was so funny too. So yes, I believe there is room for brown in pottery, and also room for tons of colour.