19. January 2019
When I did the Rame Artisans Coliective Craft fair just before last Christmas, I found a huge exposure of clay in a foundation trench. So I’m going to test it’s plasticity. Hopefully it will be as plastic as other examples of this clay from across the region. This is the yellow clay from weathered slates.
30. December 2018
I’ve been looking for clay deposits in Plymouth for years I’ve searched Budshead Woods. And I now have scientific evidence that Plymouth is covered in clay. This evidence is an article published by the Ussher Society http://www.ussher.org.uk/journal/90s/1998/documents/Cattell_1998.pdf In his article Mr Catell says deposits in Plymouth are 8m thick! EIGHT METRES!!! Where are they?!?!?! So when I did a craft fair over at Millbrook before Christmas , I found a foundation trench around an old...
28. December 2018
I have been making ceramics since 2001 as I trained at Plymouth College of Art from 2001-2006, gained a BTec and BA in Craft Design. After graduating, I competed a City AndGuildsAdult Education Certificate and have been running small art and design based classes since then. Between 2012-2014 I completed an MA in Experimental Archaeology atExeterUniversity. At PCA , I developed a love of using white porcelain as a ceramic white canvas for ceramic colour. I also became an adherent of DeWaal’s...
06. December 2018
So Flameworks is popping up at Rumpus Cosy , Plymouth tonight. Luke Axworthy, Leigh Mason, Tweenie Van Mierhlo, Nicky Sadler, Amy Whittingham, Helen Harrison and myself will put on a mini show of our work for a one evening Christmas sale.
03. December 2018
So I have a shelf in my workshop which has about 10-12 different types of minerals which I’ve sourced from Southwest England. There’s weathering feldspar, pieces of granite, quartz, tin oxide mineral, galaena, china clay, copper oxide - malachite, calcite, flint, Devon yellow clay (processed, made into a pot and fired)!. I make pots with porcelain and please myself with the conceit that all the materials could have been sourced locally for this clay. There is even a source of bentonite in...