Well here we are, autumn half term! I cannot believe the wedding was over a month ago. I am using the winter to make some new ceramics. I plan to get the new website and images of work up and running for spring. I plan to have videos on the new site which should give a new exciting aspect -- being able to see the movement of water on the water features. I am looking forward to making these new forms that are buzzing around in my mind. Like most people, I have noticed a drop in sales in these dreadful times, but I am hopeful for a revival in spring.

The Wedding was a week ago, I cannot believe it. It was a glorious day, the weather was perfect and the whole thing wonderful. The porcelain tea light holders all vanished I am delighted to say. Back to reality and the water feature waiting for attention on the workbench. The website is rather static at the moment, I am unable to update it because of problems with my computer. I am looking forward to the new website which will be one of the jobs Sophie will be doing when she gets back from honeymoon. In the meantime I will continue putting some pictures on the blog. Please email me any enquiries and I can tell you what is available and what I am working on.

I have just opened the kiln and as promised here are some pictures. The water feature is based on a sculpture I have in the workshop ( and on the web gallery). I cannot believe that I have not already made a water feature in this design, it's such a watery theme and the lines are very fluid. The other pictures are of the wedding tea light holders. As you can imagine it has been a massive change working in very thin porcelain after the more robust stoneware. I am pleased with the result, I think they will look lovely with the light shining through.

Nothing for months and now two posts come along together! The shelves in my workshop are nearly empty of sculptures. I have been making water features to order steadily and not replacing sculptures when they sell. The gallery and examples page illustrate most of the sculptures I have made,--please remember that in 4 to 8 weeks I can make similar sculptures and water features to order.
John and Sophie are moving out today so I am writing this in the middle of hectic van loading. Kiln firing tomorrow and back to building another water feature.

I cannot believe it has been so long since I updated the blog. I had such good intentions of doing it regularly! I am still busy making commissions. I have just finished the building of a new water feature which I am pleased with, it is a very watery theme of a stylised starfish; I am looking forward to seeing it working. Which brings me to the next piece of news. I am having the website totally redesigned - it will include videos to show the movement and sound of the water features which will be a great improvement on static photos. This work is being done by Sophie Trinick ( my soon to be daughter in law, www.omni-ba.co.uk. )
I am now well into the school summer holidays and getting involved in a new challenge. I am making small porcelain tea light holders for the wedding next month of Sophie and my son John ( lots of wedding news in this blog, but this is the last one). I have based the idea on water lily flowers with overlapping petals, the light should show through making a pattern of the different thicknesses. Seems to be ok in the prototypes I made earlier. I will post photos later when they are fired. It has been so different working on such a small scale in such a different clay.
John and Sophie have been living with me for the last 6 months after moving from Bristol. They now have a flat in Plymouth so are moving on again tomorrow. I will miss their company hugely but the space will be lovely.

2010 will be my third year exhibiting in Outside Art on 12-27th of June. At Russel's Quarry Garden and Avondale Library Garden near Coventry in Warwickshire.
Duncan Heather from the Oxford Garden Design School said

"Outside Art has quickly established itself as one of the 'must see' sculpture exhibitions of the year. Set in lovely surrounding, the artwork is wide-ranging in style and appeals to all tastes and budgets. If you have never been to a sculpture exhibition before, I recommend you go see this one. If you're an established collector, the choice is overwhelming, the prices very competitive and the service excellent."

Hi,
I have just spent an exhausting but productive morning in the workshop preparing a batch of clay for the next water feature. I hope it will be a new design ( if things work out as I imagine). I like to make new things as much as possible to vary the gallery page and to make a change from repeating designs. It gets the creative ideas going again and refreshes my approach to all the work. I have been having ideas about making tall column water features , I can make separate shapes which would stack together. The surface could be carved to create a texture for the water to run over. I would really love to make bigger things, for example a stack of pebble shapes of diminishing size. These water features could be many feet tall when assembled. I am willing to make drawings and discuss ideas if anyone thinks this sounds interesting.
Back to the bench now to make the large lump of clay into coils to make the body of the new one.

Here we are in 2010. Happy New Year to all. Having struggled through all that snow and ice, which was so pretty at the beginning but soon outstayed it's welcome, I have been out in the garden today, the bulbs are coming up and the clematis is shooting. I can detect the first feeling of spring in the air. I know that nasty things like frost and gales will still happen but it cheered me up no end. The workshop has been neglected in the cold weather and I am looking forward to getting back to work. The event I always look forward to is the Cornwall Spring Flower Show in Boconnoc near Lostwithiel,( 10th and 11th of April) I really enjoy talking to the visitors, meeting those I see every year and of course selling things!