Beautiful Porcelain

My friend, Inga, graduated the same year as me at Gymea TAFE.  Her work is outstanding.  Inga is taking part in a mentor program that provides professional experience in a small gallery (The Inner City Clayworkers at Glebe) - her first show opens next week.  If you or your friends are in Sydney then please call in while the show is on....

It runs from 26 May to 13 June 2011.  Just click on the image to enlarge for more details or follow the link to the gallery website.

Updated

I decided it was time to update the layout of this blog a little. I hope you like it.

This camellia grows in a protected courtyard which helps the flower stay pristine.

Revisited design

Some years ago I designed this jug and screen printed an image of my parents when they were in their youth:

I like the shape and so recently made another smaller jug based on this design using texture and glaze on glaze technique for decoration.  This now has me thinking about a shape for a teapot.....

Autumn

While I live in a temperate climate it does get cold enough for the change of seasons to be noticed.
I took these in a nearby street at dusk.

Presentation

I have started to put together a presentation of the potteries I visited in the UK last year - can't believe it is almost 12mths since we flew out for our 11 weeks of Ireland, UK, France and Germany.  So many great memories.  I hope my presentation will give others some idea of the history behind the medium that is taken for granted each day we eat off a plate, drink from a mug or cook in the oven or even those little ornaments in the glass cabinet.
I scanned this photo (taken in Stoke on Trent in 1953) which shows how many coal fired bottle kilns there used to be in use.

The one circled is the Gladstone Pottery Museum which is trying to preserve the history of the area and has 5 of the remaining 47 bottle kilns.
I had such a great day there and my husband took heaps of photos.

A little success

Found out today that one of my pieces in the Friends of Hazelhurst exhibition has sold. Some is better than none!

Part of mini installation "Boudoir Nostalgia"  also includes wall hanging (not shown).

Sales Event

These are destined for a Sales event by the Port Hacking Potters Group I belong to.  We will be selling our work in the School of Arts at Cronulla this Thursday and Friday, 14th &15th April 2011.

Teapot retrospective

I am posting images of teapots I have made in the past so I can critique them before I start on my design for my entry in this year's Sydney Teapot Show at the Innercity Clayworkers Gallery in a few months time.

"Jade"

"Crouching Tiger"

"Jade 2"

Woodfired 1 & 2

Raku

Spotty

Yellow with cane handle

"Summer"

New Prototype - not quite there yet

Designing a new shape can take time.  I am trying to get an oval vase shape on the wheel.  Getting a nice foot at the same time is rather tricky. These are still too squat so back to the wheel for me.

commercial tissue print flowers

Ceramic pencil and commercial tissue print cutouts

Own plant pot

It is nice to use something that you have made yourself.  I might get around to making some more plant pots one of these days.  This one has a saucer that is thrown at the same time as the pot.