Would love to be back in Beijing for the new year festivities. Fireworks, excitement and smog but that sums up my experience of China, a roller coaster of sensations, I miss you!
I will be exhibiting at the Tea Green sale at the Kibble Palace, Glasgow botanic gardens on 10-11th December. It will be nice to having a sale close to home, which should make the logistics nice and easy. The Kibble Palace glasshouse is a beautiful setting, no matter what the Glasgow weather may throw at us.
And in case you are not in Glasgow this weekend, Tea Green are also selling my work at their pop up shop in Dundee, open until 24th December at the Old Flour Mill, Exchange Court.
Been working with reduction firing recently, and I’m feeling pretty good about the results so far.
Had a great weekend at the Hub, near Edinburgh Castle, exhibiting with Handmade Edinburgh. Busy three days, and looking forward to next year.
travelling across the globe this month, it’s difficult to connect the places in my mind and figure out how my work fits into this map so here’s a recap of what I’ve been doing recently whilst I’m away form the studio…
just finished bowls
earlier rice bowl glaze tests, first firings when I arrived back in glasgow
new work
more new work
pieces providing inspiration, my work and briglin pottery
whilst matt cooked the dinner my mum and I spent xmas day sewing napkins and tablecloth out of oxfam curtains and decorating the cake with another charity shop find [ribbon], on a plate from relics, recycling magic…
the meal was yummy and all the more enjoyable after our hard work
I discovered what I already suspected that cake decorating is much harder than it looks and that gold leaf is almost impossible to control
inspired by cressida bell’s cake design I persisted, “when I was little there was a plate at my grandparents’ house, Charleston , which we children fought over. I don’t remember it clearly except that it was turquoise, orange and black with cross-hatching and flowers…”
the tree
some kitsch tableaux, also charity shop finery
Just installed a framed tile series in Macrobert Arts Centre, University of Stirling, for their xmas exhibition. They were made in Hong Kong, carried in my hand luggage from Beijing and framed in Glasgow, then finally transported by train to Stirling – what a journey!
the third litter of kittens to be born and raised in our garden are proving very distracting, every time I leave the front door they present a photo-op
I did make it to Beijing design week and saw some interesting projects, this was a good one, popular with the locals in the Bai ta si area, near a temple under renovation.
locals here also a little tired of design fans wandering up to their houses, definitely a more residential atmosphere than dashilar where Ubi gallery has my work on display
Finally a beautiful Beijing sunset over a pigeon loft
and a tortoise out for a walk…
Good that the Beijing summer is much warmer than Glasgow. Not so good – the humidity is up. But thanks to welcome visitors we’ve had some fun…
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