COLOUR IN THE WOODS

Pair of Porcelain Pots

Well this will be a surprise for people that know me!Not one to be the least bit open about what I am doing, I am forcing myself into this new mode to increase public access to my working processes and thoughts with regard to the Arts Council grant that I have been

awarded

V&A MUSEUM

So often I revisit my favourite objects, and I always gravitate to these when in the glass department! These little bottles really have been molten once upon a time.

I noticed these modest , but delightful plates as I was heading out of the museum, I could hardly believe they are over 800 years old, and were used as every day pots for eating.

CERAMICS DEPARTMENT - V&A Museum

And one of my favourite items of the day, a riveted dish!

This wreck contained pots made in Jingzhedhen in about 1725, which have become fused in the heat of a raging fire.

In great contrast to the refined white pots, the result of shipwrecks and fires.... this one is from the 14th century Turiang shipwreck off the east coast of Malaysia.

Really beautiful example of early Meissen porcelain, elegant proportions and fine details.

Fabulously elaborate, yet retaining simplicity, this is an 18th Century jar from Mennecy, which was used to hold balms and ointments.

This is so familiar, I grew up with this pottery in my Grandparents house, they didn't have paintings, Moorcroft was seen as the most precious treasures to own. The blue crockery was used as daily ware, it lived on a small white painted dresser in the kitchen.

HARDWICK TREES

Extraordinary limb like tree felled near the fishing ponds at Hardwick Hall.