Here is a selection of my more recent blog posts
So, what did I learn from my Fine Art MA?
It is now almost four months since the day I was busy taking dismantling my exhibition space and clearing out my studio area at Bath Spa University, and as the graduation ceremony approaches, I have been reflecting upon that fun but hectic year studying for an MA in Fine Art at the University Locksbrook campus.
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Clay and Provenance
To the casual passer-by, a fragment of pottery be it of a once richly-decorated dinner plate or a chunky fragment of a one-time flowerpot, does not get a second-glance or thought. It was only due to my involvement in creating ceramic forms, that I even stopped to pull a small shard of fired terracotta from the earth, at the site of a former horticultural nursery on the outskirts of the City of Bath.
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Play the Museum IV
I am proud to announce that my work will be featuring in this year’s Play the Museum IV exhibition at the Holburne Museum, Bath along with the works of six other MA Fine Art students currently studying at Bath Spa University.
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When that perfect glaze is right under your feet
For most of my practice to date, my making has focussed on low-fire clays (local terracotta wild clay in particular). Not only does this reflect the colours of the local geology that I find so inspiring, but also because firing earthenware clay demands less energy than stoneware or porcelain. Low firing also maximises my opportunity to use locally-sourced wild clays.
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Nine Days in May
During the following month of May, I began to focus on the daily changes that were starting to occur within the hay meadow I was walking through. I began to stop at the same position every morning and point the camera in exactly the same direction and capture the onset of competition between the native flora over the next thirty days.
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2023 – The year of the wood kiln!
If I can pick out one personal ceramic highlight of 2023, it has to be the creation and firing of a new wood-firing kiln at The Lyde Green Pottery, just outside Bristol.
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Seeing and knowing
At the gift shop of the Tate Gallery, London, I found a single postcard of an abstract work that immediately caught my eye. The work was absolutely mesmerising and uplifting, however the logical and reasoning side of my brain was cast adrift, shrugging its shoulders, practically at a loss to contribute anything to this moment of pure visual enlightenment.
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