This week we had a bit of a sort out in the store room… and decided to add quite a few pots to the sale section of our website. Here are some of them.… Read more...
Who else is currently making tableware in the UK? On Tuesday I visited Ruthin Craft Centre in North Wales, curious to see our work alongside 21 other makers, many of whom I hadn’t been aware of.… Read more...
If it feels like a while since you’ve heard from us that’s because it is… it’s just over two years since my last newsletter. Why so quiet?
We’ve had plenty of news but none relating to our work, other than questioning its future.… Read more...
Decorating a pot can feel like a risky business – although superficial it can make or break the appeal of the object. During the last eighteen years of decorating pots, I have tried not to be timid or conservative and have taken risks, resulting in an embarrassing number of “seconds”… and many I’m proud of.… Read more...
I wouldn’t say that I have ever “hit the ground running”. I’m a slow burner; creative ideas take a long time to develop in my head, then take a long time to be realised, followed by lengthy periods of honing.… Read more...
Our work is in The Tate Modern. Well, it will be in the Tate Edit shop at Tate Modern from October 16th to be accurate.
In the Summer The Tate put out Open Call on Instagram.… Read more...
Like buses, three exhibitions have come at once! But they are at very different venues and are showing very different kinds of work. From quiet, functional work for every day use at Ruthin Craft Centre to dramatic one-off, titled pieces at the National Eisteddfod to bottles with clean forms and restrained surface design in Liverpool.… Read more...
My decoration seems to exist within a context of gradual evolution; nothing is ever totally new but everything is unique. For months on end I’m happy to repeat favourite themes and colours and then suddenly a new idea or colour occurs to me which prompts innovation.… Read more...
We always knew that making mainly functional pots by hand is not an easy way to make a living but we (somewhat blindly) trusted that, if we applied ourselves and were able to remain creatively engaged, people would like our work and we would do OK.… Read more...
This weekend we will be showing our tableware in Abergavenny as part of the Food Festival. There will be five other ceramicists upstairs in the lovely calm, light space of the Chapel.… Read more...
As Fine Art graduates, James and I are generally drawn to making functional things as a refuge from the complexities of Art. However, earlier this year we dedicated a period of time to making pots which are not intended for use.… Read more...
James and I are enjoying making bottles and I’ve been trying to put my finger on what it is about them that appeals. I think it could be that they were originally functional rather than decorative.… Read more...