While my hands haven’t been covered in mud this week – I have been accepted into Uni to learn some more about clay, ceramics and art.
Had a beautiful lunch with fellow Revolutionary Ceramicos members Cass and Clare and was very lucky to receive one of Cass’s puppies as a Christmas gift. Woot woot
Merry Christmas from Bluey -
My Christmas tree is up and with carols resounding in the background, lights tinkling and a tipple of the cheery stuff I had the pleasure of remembering past trips, friends and family as I put the Christmas ornaments around the tree.
This years additions were six beautiful crosses from Hillgrove House in Ireland http://homepage.eircom.net/~hillgroveporcelain/index.html – beautiful porcelain trinkets and a wonderful big red heart from Lyn Gold Coast Potters www.goldcoastpotters.com and a lovely white heart rememberance of the people of Japan that went through the earthquake earlier this year. I was in Japan when my father died and we had to return to Australia – a day later the earthquake hit Japan and my heart goes out to the poeple who are still coping with the after effects.
On a ceramic note – If you are lucky enough to be able to get to Manly -Check out
The Narrative Knot: stories in ceramics Curator and artists talk, 4 December 2011 Exhibition open 2 December 2011 – 22 January 2012 by: The Australian Ceramics Association
And dont forget to check out – ‘Mud Colony’ – a weekly blog for Clayworkers to show us what their up to in the studio
http://mudcolony.blogspot.com/
Happy Clay days everyone
Debby
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Wonderful to have clay rememberances of friends for the holidays. We had a cattle dog named Blue whose since gone to dog heaven, love that blue dog.
Thanks Linda I am going to get onto making some next year. You have inspired me to make a little puppy ornament and name him after my maltese -Dogs are so beautiful
Hi Debby I was lucky enough to visit Belleek Pottery last year – did the studio tour and pondered for ages in the shop before purchasing a little souvenir teapot. The bodies are mostly slipcast except for the baskets which are still completely handbuilt as are the flowers. The shamrocks are all painted on by hand with china paint enamels and then refired along with the decal logo on the base. The women making the flowers were amazing to watch!
Happy clay days to you too
lucky lucky you Anna – It is on my wish list. I have a few Belleek pieces but the baskets are just so beautiful. Maybe next year
Hope you make it there (and maybe the Wedgwood vistors centre in UK?)