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Little Owls, smoke fired
These little owls came out of the smoke firing bins just in time for my Open Studio last weekend. I was still scraping them out of the ashes on Friday morning while everyone else was busy setting up. I made them back in November but I never got around to smokle fire them.
They make me [...]
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Hastings Hot Houses!
So the Christmas edition of the Hastings Hot Houses is over and done with and we did incredibly well!
Food was served and wine was drunk and pictures, ceramic torsos and Fat Birds flew off the shelves!
Nice!
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Smoke firing in the rain!
It is a tradition amonst artists to always be late, in a flux and panicking. So here I am, with five Christmas shows to get off the ground, listening to music, updating my blog; a nice bottle of wine beside me on the desk..
Truth to say there isn’t a lot else I can do until the kiln [...]
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Tags: blog, christmas shows, copper oxide, fat birds, galvanized dustbin for smoke firing, iron oxide, kiln, manganese oxide, smoke chamber, smoke firing, unglazed
Christmas Show!
Feel free to drop in if you live nearby! The kiln is working over time and so am I!
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Tags: anna keiller ceramics, artists, ceramic sculpture, christmas show, Fairlyte interiors, Hastings hot houses, jewellery, julie tucker-williams, kate osborne, katherine reekie, kay green, Melissa white, open houses, sophie cadogan, watercolours, women's knitwear, www.hastingshothouses.co.uk
This was my glorious tree fern in the spring..I love the spirals and the exuberance.
This is the way it looks now, in late autumn, with Fox poking his face through the fronds.
I’ve used ferns a lot in my work. Here are some House Gods waiting to go into the kiln. The ferns will burn away [...]
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Tags: House Gods, Lares and Penates, kiln, Fox, ferns, garden, tree ferns, glazed, smoke fired, molochite clay
Little Owls
I’m sitting in my garden under a huge full moon listening to Tawny owls. They are so loud and there are so many of them and I wonder what they are up to.
The night is warm despite it being late autumn, and I’m drinking a glass of wine. I’m thinking about Marija Gimbutas books on archeomythology and how she [...]
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Tags: archeomythology, clay, fat birds, glazing, kiln, little owls, Marija Gimbutas, smoke firing, Tawny owls
A journey into the mysterious…
This song is to me both camp and sublime – the words remind me of journeys I make in my mind when sitting in a forest or hill top.
The search for beauty and meaning has lead me to Shamanism and lately C. Jung’s writings on the collective unconsciousness and the archetypes.
The [...]
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Tags: Albert Einstein, archetypes, c. jung, ceramic sculpture, clay, collective unconsciousness, shamanism, The wolf of velvet fortune
My Bay tree
My beautiful bay tree has got a disease and needs to come down.
It is terribly sad, and suddenly I have all these houses surrounding me!
So now the bay is on the lawn, and Kate is helping to cut away the leaves.
When everyone has left, Fox comes to inspect the damage.
He doesn’t look [...]
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I have a small patch of garden next to my kitchen where I grow herbs and salad crops. I have placed a sculpture of Dionysus there and stuck bamboo canes into the ground to stop Fox from squashing the lettuce…
And this is what he has to say about that!
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New Ceramic Workshops
The next ceramic course is planned for Saturday 7th November at 11-13.30pm. This course is a five sessions workshop covering essential ceramic techniques such as coiling, slab building, press moulding and smoke firing. Each session is 2.5 hours long. This course costs £110 + materials (approx. £10)
Please email me here for further information.
The groups are limited to [...]
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Tags: ceramic courses, ceramic work shops, coiling, press moulding, slab building, smoke firing
