New Pots

A new set of bowls, made for Daisy and Adam as a wedding present, have encouraged me to take up ceramics again - have therefore purchased on Ebay (for £47 !!) a Leech kickwheel from Slough, which I haven't used yet, but it's only a matter of time. Thinking also of getting hold of a kiln one way or another so I can be self sufficient as and when the muse takes me.

The glaze of these bowls should have been matt-white stoneware - either the label was wrong or the kiln temperature was too high/low. One way or another, the finished effect is very nice (I think) and I'm happy with them - all part of the mystery of alchemy.

St Andrew's Church, Chew Magna

Bang up to date again now, with this pen & wash of St Andrew's in Chew Magna, Somerset from our recent campervan trip.

Worm's Head Llandudno and Dunwich Suffolk

Fairlight, Cambridgeshire and the Downs

More from the lost sketchbook

More sketching - cliff studies in Pembrokeshire & north Devon

Discovered a sketchbook from the last couple of years with some quite nice work in it - sketching from around the country, including cliff studies from Pembrokeshire and Devon, having seen drawings by Wilhemina Barnes-Graham, and a couple of drawings from the Downs. Hope you like.

colour rediscovered III

Finally, after a surprising and unusual amount of hard work, 6 new paintings completed - by way of a nod to some of my favourite artists, particularly Patrick Heron and Bryan Wynter, and at a loss for anything else to do, I have decided to name them after the predominant colours I have used - yellows, Ochre and Naples, Cadmium Red and Red Deep, Paynes Grey, Mars Black and Raw Umber. Hope you find something of interest in them.

colour rediscovered II

As promised, photos of the new paintings I have been working on - some just about there, others not quite ready yet. Quite happy-ish so far though.