This is where it all started for me as a 16 year old, and this is where I leave the journey through the V & A Ceramic Halls. These humble pots still have the voice of their creators and that is some test of time. Pieces like these underline my own relationship with clay, and they reinforce all that is good about pot making.I am preparing for another journey, back to the future, Spain has been very wet for the past two months and I wonder what I will find when I get there. The boot is loaded with Spencroft's SRB8-G clay (ridiculous I know, but the Spanish stuff is just too high in iron for my work) and CTM's stains. There is a storm in Biscay tomorrow spreading northerly into the Channel so it is going to be a rough crossing, all that ballast will be essential me thinks!
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Have a good trip and I hope your studio is all as you left it. I am looking forward to seeing what you make next.
Thanks so much for the V & A posts, I've really enjoyed them. Sorry for my silence for the last little while, I've been quietly reading and keeping up with your blog, but have had very little time to do more than just read and move on. Regarding Lucie Rie's Studio, it is a bit strange without at least some clay splatters and mess. I wish they would let a potter loose in there for an hour or two and then seal it up, I'm sure that it would help. I really love the bowl from Basra (a few posts back), the circles, blobs, and spoke like lines seem to have been brushed on with such enthusiasm. It actually looks like it could have been done yesterday rather than in 850 AD.
Saw a lovely collection of tea pots yesterday that were in someone's private collection, a real joy to see good things.
Thanks Peter, in haste now as the ferry is actually running in the force 9 we are experiencing right now. Packing up (like Jessie) and getting the hell out'a here! Everybody now, all change and find another space, stretch out your arms and stay there! As Joyce Grenfell would have said........
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