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What I did over my holidays
I spent a back-breaking day making test tiles in porcelain, earthenware and paperclay – then using different decorative tools and techniques on them. I have used the capillary method of applying slip and glaze to my maps and wold bowls […]
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The Volume of a Baggy Pot
Before my first session with mentor, Jill Ford, I had an artist’s day out to Centre of Ceramic Art at York Art Gallery where the have a national collection of ceramics and British studio pottery in particular. My work to […]
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Are there gendered aspects to creativity?
Alchemists worked in teams which were usually one woman and one man: sister/brother, daughter/father, wife/husband because they believed both anima and animus had to be drawn on in the creative process. I am sure there were transgressive teams that were […]
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The Genesis of the Baggy Pot
Before my first session with mentor, Jill Ford, I had an artist’s day out to Centre of Ceramic Art at York Art Gallery where the have a national collection of ceramics and British studio pottery in particular. My work to […]