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Untitled blog post from "100 teapots"
I made 25 so far, and I noticed that I have to keep focused on the throwing of each one , not to rush into increasing the number. In the last batch a few were a bit uneven and may […]
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Untitled blog post from "100 teapots"
Thank you to Lili Daniels for commenting on my blog, it is so nice to know I am not talking to empty space. I don’t think I am focusing on one aspect of teapots at a time, I am trying […]
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Untitled blog post from "100 teapots"
In this month I have made my first 10 teapots. I found I had to keep an open mind not to try for a particular shape, I want to have only the weight of 1kg of clay as a point […]
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Untitled blog post from "Now, what next?"
I feel back to square 1 after a year of thinking and working. The real issue is that I am bored, I don’t have the drive to do the same stuff because i don’t have prospect to sell it, and […]
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Untitled blog post from "Now, what next?"
I find myself in an unusual position of having a lot of time ahead without a definite deadline, optimum chance to develop my work to a new level, and I am paralyzed and can’t actually do anything. The studio is […]
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Untitled blog post from "functional, decorative, conceptual"
New directions A part from the fact that my studio is frozen and unreachable with the snow, I am planning my next year of activity and I feel I need a change of strategy. After a very promising 2009, in […]
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Untitled blog post from "functional, decorative, conceptual"
We have to give the spare bedroom to my daughter because she is still sharing with her younger brother. I am happy to do so, but I also feel extremely jealous of the privacy of a room that I never […]
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Untitled blog post from "functional, decorative, conceptual"
I was writing a post on the day the website was switched off for two hours and I lost my text. I can't remember at all what I was writing about, so many things have happened in these 10 days […]
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Untitled blog post from "functional, decorative, conceptual"
I have not written for many months, and things have progressed a lot. A letter from Andrew Bryant yesterday encouraged me to post this piece I had prepared a month ago. What happened was that I realized I needed help […]
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Untitled blog post from "functional, decorative, conceptual"
I am also stimulated to talk about my experience of parenting and working as an artist. My first consideration is that I was a mother for 11 years before I even thought of becoming an aristAll through university I tried […]
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Untitled blog post from "functional, decorative, conceptual"
I have had three shows with mixed success and every time I have the feeling that either the buyers are wrong for my work or my work is wrong for the kind of event.What I mean is that if I […]
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Untitled blog post from "functional, decorative, conceptual"
I have felt stuck for some time now, after the refusal at Cockpit Arts. I have tried to work out how to find my own rightness in my ceramic work and in my painting and I always feel lost and […]