New Phase, Echoes, oh and Ceramic….

 

New work is beginning to happen now. My long standing Mending themes are still there, but are moving on to something broader, more to do with fragility, and possibly memory. I begin by getting most of the yarn that I have dyed over the last 25 years for many different projects, and start working with it, echoing some of that work, but taking it somewhere else. I like to work without too much planning, with just a thread of an idea. But it is hard to do, feeling one’s way.


What am I doing making pots, I ask myself. Well, needing to play a bit, and finding some paperclay in the back of my little studio, I starting pinching pots. After a while I realised these are all about quality of line, like so much of my work – i.e. the line of the rim. And of course I love a wonky pot, so these are deliberately pretty wonky. Haven’t got the glazes quite right yet, so these are waiting whilst my first extremely wonky efforts are fired and re-fired – thanks to my neighbour the very special ceramicist Amanda Popham. It will all feed back into prints and weaving. Having such a good time!