Lockdown life on the Isle of Skye, doesn’t seem very different from life as normal. At least not in the daily routines and pace of life. Meeting people for a blether doesn’t happen often in the best of times, we’re at the top of a steep road and gossip doesn’t flow uphill! The Postie still…
From the Isle of Skye to Venice
From one watery world to another, thanks to an obsession with clay. I am not long home from visiting Venice for the second time in my life. The first was 30 years ago with a friend from art school. I never forgot the experience. Silent waterways, Piazza San Marco flooded and empty, a gondolier singing…
Day trip to Bizen ware
Bizen ware was not high on my list of priorities when we were deciding our itinerary. What came to mind was naked beige clay body with random lines of shiny red/orange scorch marks reminisent of sunburn on a pale Scottish body. However JG was very keen having become excited about the work of Isezaki Jun.…
3TREESceramics, Den Haag, Netherlands
on the 21 May //17:30 opening exhibition of 3TREESceramics GALLERY LABS & LOUNGE EXHIBITION~ PATRICIA SHONE, Scottish ceramist showing her raku fired work EXHIBITION 3TREES new works:: Joris-Jan Bos //Victoria Goodwin Eat & Drink Music by Marialuisa Capurso & Arvind Ganga Ceramic Auction presented by Firma Mes (Daan & Roos) & Roel Goudsmit The exhibition…
Landscape : Islands, Brighton
Landscape : Islands an exploration in contemporary ceramics and sound An exhibition of contemporary ceramic art displayed in the extraordinary context of The Ceramic House. Landscape : Islands, curated by artist Kay Aplin, is part of Artists Open Houses (AOH) during the Brighton Festival 2016. Exhibiting artists: Patricia Shone, Paul Scott, Delfina Emmanuel, Carolyn Genders, Charlotte Thorup, Owen Quinlan, Anne-Marie…
Pots and Noise
I don’t like music in the workshop, I prefer silence. Music manipulates my mood too much, interfering with the process of making. If the job in hand is tedious or repetitive I have BBC radio 4 playing, but over the course of a day the constant replay of news is depressing so I like to…
Buying pots, continued
We fell out of the gallery Toko with our purchases, like drunkards looking for the another bar, which happened to be on the other side of the road in the form of Moegi, another gallery. A modern building on three floors with a central atrium surrounding a maple tree, just beginning to turn in colour.…
Mashiko part 3, actually buying pots
Pot number 1, a small tenmoku dish from Hamada Museum, for my good friend who drove me to Aberdeen airport at 5am to catch my flight to London to connect with the Narita flight. No photo of this. Pot number 2, a white glazed vase. Half way down the high street at 3pm and despairing…
Mashiko part 2, buying pots
Nothing is – Look, and it is. Not seeing at all, We cannot see all there is around us. Everything is but an expression of the self. ……… I buy something – I have bought myself. From ‘The Windows of Life’ …. Some thoughts by Kanjiro Kawai No matter how I try to justify it…
Mashiko, 12&13 Nov. part 1
We arrived in the early afternoon after a 3 hour 3 train journey from Tokyo. You know you’ve arrived in Mashiko by the presence of an enormous pot standing at the station. Took a taxi to the hotel to drop off the luggage, then into town to be deposited at the feet of a giant…