Tag Archives: ceramics

Taurus Full Moon, ceramic plaque

Ceramic plaque 22 x 18 cm, smoke fired. I’ve been out moon gazing – how can you not during these heady spring months! I like to sit in my garden in the company of Boris the Bat, a single bat … Continue reading

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Ceramic workshops – birds are optional

I am considering training up my parrots to become pottery teachers…Carolyn came to Hastings to stay at my Airbnb and do a pottery session. I am not sure she realized what she had let herself in for. Here Mousie Tung is inspecting a … Continue reading

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Ceramic smoke firing workshop

So Janet arrived from Newcastle with a crate full of bisque fired ceramic work which she wanted to smoke fire here at my studios in Hastings All these vessels are made from grogged crank, except the piece to the far … Continue reading

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Obsessively recording the view…

  It has been a while since I last posted, and I apologize. But I seem to have fallen into a helpless state of worship; I cannot stop looking at the clouds, the sea;  even the silently waiting trees outside … Continue reading

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Ceramics and Shamanism

Ceramic Shrines for mythological Gods appx 45 cm x 25cm When I first started to make Shamanic journeys, I would often appear before my Spirits dressed as Snow White in her full Disney regalia; a pretty blue top with a … Continue reading

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Smoke firing a ceramic torso

Oh, the weather! Gales and vertical rain. I have spent the holidays vertical, too; on my sofa in front of the fire watching Breaking Bad compulsively online. Live dangerously, right? I couldn’t decide if I should smoke fire my ‘Lady … Continue reading

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Sold, ceramic wall art

This is a ceramic plaque showing the Goddess Gaia plucking embryos from the ocean of life and bringing them into existence. The sculpture is about 30 cm x 30 cm and it is glazed with oxides and transparent glaze and … Continue reading

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Ceramic sculpture with bronze finish

I love making sculptures out of found objects such as this sea shell and a dragon I made out of plaster of Paris and then bronzed. My neighbour’s daughter’s fingers and a clam. I cast her fingers in plaster of … Continue reading

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Studio sale, progress report.

When I am not running around with buckets to catch the rain that is coming through my ceilings, I am still trying to sort out work for my upcoming studio sale. This bowl with fish has been sitting in my … Continue reading

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New ceramic bowls

This ceramic bowl is about 15” x 4” This is what it looks like inside. So difficult to photograph bowls, I find. The bowl is press moulded and I have made a couple of bowls using the same plaster mould. … Continue reading

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