Call it Serendipidy

Thrown bowl glazed in transparent green
over blue slip with sea green interior.

What a difference a week makes. This time last week I was wondering how I could take my ceramics to the next level now that the workshop plans are no more.

Slab piece inspired by a project on shoes.

Thrown open bowl glazed
in buttercream and sea green

So a chance conversation with a friend at college last Monday and a visit to Wimbledon Artists Studios on Thursday mean that we are now the proud joint tenants of a small cupboard with a window in which I plan to create more and more experimental pieces. There have been many sleepless nights since Thursday - I keep coming up with other things that I want to try - and the excitement levels are somewhere up in the stratosphere.   One of the great things about joining WAS is that we can take advantage of their lectures, visits and open studios. I am off to an afternoon on Internet Copyright tomorrow which probably comes under the heading of Boring but Important.  

 

Slab piece inspired by beach
 combing textures.

 

In the mean time I wanted to update my blog with a few recent successes.  I have never really bothered much with colour in the past but am enjoying playing with glazes and taking the risk on what the outcome might be.  I have used test tiles but to be honest I love the feeling of just dipping a piece whose shape I llike and hoping that I will still like it when it re-emerges from the kiln.  Once the studio is up and running I will not have access to quite so many glazes as at college so I need to know which ones I really likebut there is something very liberating about trusting to luck and you do get some wonderfully pleasant surprises!

 

 

 

The first Open Studios which I will be involved in is in May. I will be there and the kettle will be on.  Hope to see you.