tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59830753824925570062024-03-05T13:58:15.746-08:00Barnbarroch PotteryChristinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09941407276963445940noreply@blogger.comBlogger212125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5983075382492557006.post-61005069401970801222017-09-24T04:58:00.000-07:002017-09-24T04:58:06.564-07:00A run of tricky Commissions<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Over the summer I have been working my way through a host of rather tricky commissions, time consuming both in thought and execution. All now collected and thankfully appreciated. This tile panel is for the back of a range, each panel of six to be mounted on either side of a stove pipe.<br />
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As they had to be a specific size it seemed worthwhile to make a die, extrude them in one long length and cut them. This also meant that they were far less prone to warp. Dried slowly between boards, they were delightfully flat.<br />
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Next up a large plate for a 90th birthday. The recipient had planted and tended a deciduous wood and has a large extended family.<br />
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The requests for name plaques keep coming. </div>
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And as for those penguins...<br />
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And that car....</div>
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The joy of tile off cuts, commissions are ok but it's a relief to play. </div>
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This batch of tall jars and vases was constructed and bisc fired before I went away to Nepal in March, so though initially a struggle to tune back in to them, they are back underway now. At last just about ready for the glaze kilns. </div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Unfortunately I managed to melt the main the fuse box, not once but twice, so there has been a bit of a kiln traffic jam. Lucky I didn't burn the whole pottery down. Isolator switch wasn't isolating.....</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">I returned to another order for plates for No 16 Restaurant Byers Road. Another glaze dipping feast. I was really hoping to concentrate on new work for Spring Fling, but hopefully I will have managed to complete both - just about in time. </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.wendykershaw.org/" style="text-align: start;" target="_blank"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Wendy Kershaw</a><span style="text-align: start;"> is once again sharing my studio over Spring Fling. Renowned for her beautiful porcelain picures, this year there will be more surprises. I for one am looking forward to seeing her new work. </span></div>
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Allie had been able to help out a couple of days lately. It's great to have two for the extruded ware, one to push and one to pull. The trouble with extruding is that it is always tempting to get a bigger batch of work started than is possible to work on in one go. Here are the extruded dishes sit waiting to be slipped<br />
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The extruder charged, die in place all ready to go. This time well labelled. It's amazing how easy it is to get things upside down, back to front or the wrong way round.<br />
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I also started some more long hangings, there seemed to be a few empty spaces in the showroom that were asking for them. These are marked with an incised design and have an initial brushed coat of slip. The rest of the colour will be added at the glaze stage.</div>
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This smaller set of dishes, (I call them 'rug platters'), have a coat of poured slip. I rest them on supports to prevent sagging until the slip dries a little.</div>
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Clay is not the first medium I would think of which to make a bicycle so this commission has been, and is, an interesting challenge.<br />
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I largely made it up as I went along, with just a rough sketch to scale and to see how it all fitted. I had originally thought, freestanding with one foot down so as to act as a tripod, soon discovering that this was going to be a soft clay logistical nightmare. It needed a base as an anchoring point.</div>
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It's a full biscuit firing tonight with bicycle man at the back.</div>
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I said an Autumn of bicycles. It all kicked off with the the Dalbeattie Hard Rock Challenge Mugs. Rewarding in a different but uniformly satisfying way.</div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Back from a wonderful weekend at Potfest, all unpacked and our own gallery put back to rights. (We are both off again tomorrow for a long weekend so don't try to visit until next Monday). It is a great show and so stimulating to be in the company of such creative and resilient fellow potters. The standard of work is truly fantastic.</span></div>
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The beautiful display of Fitch and McAndrew slipware.<br />
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'Blackbird's Bathtime' - my contribution for the Potfest competition piece, the theme being 'Bird Bath / Flight of fancy'. </div>
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Katherine Winfrey's ingenious contraption. I know that she won the Welsh vote because I enjoyed some of the prize of cake and the beer.<br />
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That’s the last glaze kiln, just unpacked this evening with pots for <a href="http://www.potfest.co.uk/in-the-park/" target="_blank">Potfest in the Park</a> on Friday. What a manic few weeks it's been but I'm feeling good now.<br />
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On this occasion I had to ask very nicely for some help, and Rodger ended up waxing some of the bases for me, then continued to pack the kiln as I glazed. </div>
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Oh... and I haven't mentioned that 'competition' piece yet. The theme this year is 'Flight of Fancy/ Bird Bath'. Yes, well I have something for it, only just. It came out of the kiln on Sunday night, and in one piece. I would have liked to have had more time for it but hey ho! It's always great to see what everyone comes up with.</div>
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The beast of an extruding machine saw some action recently with the birth of a new dish die. Although I had made this die sevaral weeks ago I have only now had a chance to try it out.<br />
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First impression was: I wanted a big dish die, and well, it is BIG!<br />
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Maybe too big in fact, this one would need a rather long kiln. Of course the intention was to cut it into sections, but even so it is quite wide, so proportionally even after cutting they are still turning out pretty large.</div>
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The edges were a bit raggedy but a bit of chamois leather sorts that out. I knew that I had pushed the die size to the limit of what an extruder could be expected to manage so it is pretty miraculous that the clay actually managed to find the edge at all.</div>
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I wasn't sure how tucking the edges up was going to work, but after a couple the best method became obvious.<br />
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The latest extruded frame pictures assembled.</div>
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They are designed to be wall mounted, and are therefore theatre, as in seen from the front and the side. In order to really get into the feel of the piece have to work on the whole, including the back, but it might be a pity to have the bottoms to the wall.</div>
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The idea for this one came from looking at some Persian manuscripts. My picture is really just a 3D version of this charming illustration I found, entitled 'The Island of the Long Beards'. </div>
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The figures were a challenge. The bodies, heads and legs were thrown and the arms pulled like handles, keeping them soft enough to manipulate once the beards were on. </div>
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It seems a while since I have made any totally new work but at last I feel I have cleared the decks enough to be allowed some proper creative play time. These are the first two of the new set of extruded frame pictures which I put together this week. Having learnt a lot from the ones I made last Spring I am constructing these in a slightly different way.<br />
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It means that rather than working on the pictures standing up, the soft frames are still face down. Unfortunately this is not such a good position for my back as it involves leaning over at an uncomfortable angle. Tomorrow I will have a think about how to prop them up a little.</div>
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These two have now been lifted onto newspaper to enable the frames to move as they shrink. When they are a little firmer I will spray them with coloured slips and then proceed to dry them extremely slowly.</div>
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Putting them together becomes quite a jigsaw puzzle, well a kind of 'time' jigsaw puzzle. Which bit to lay in first and at what point. The pieces have to still be soft enough to be flexible but not floppy. A card template has helped quite a lot as component size chart and general guide, though as in all things clay it is only a starting point.</div>
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Back into the workshop after the break, to find the half started teapots, abandoned when Christmas hit.<br />
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I just managed to get the handles extruded and shaped, then New Year hit.</div>
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At last, finally assembled, and this fleet of teapots is ready to walk. I don't often make teapots, but when I do I really enjoy them, they have such attitude.</div>
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The square plates with gannets were slipped and scored and are now drying out slowly so that they don't warp, though it's been so wet recently there isn't much chance of them drying too fast or unevenly.<br />
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I was recently asked to make a commemorative plate featuring badgers, and in doing the research and drawings I rather got into them. Having chosen the design which I used for the plate, I wanted try some of the others. Above are some new badger bowls, (slipped but not yet fired).<br />
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I also seem to have accumulated quite a lot of individual Christmas orders which have now jumped to top of the making queue. One of which is for a square plate (incidentally with a gannet on it). It was good to put my wonderful ex Glasgow school of Art slab roller to use again and fill some press moulds.</div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">It's been a long time without a post, as it felt like there have been no 'outstanding' happenings in the pottery. I have been making a lot of thrown slipware over the last few months, probably more than usual in one go, because I keep thinking that if I get ahead with stock for the gallery, it will then allow me time to get down to some great new project. But when I turn round my stock of slipware has mysteriously vanished.</span></div>
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I was fortunate to have the opportunity to go France last week. The colours and patterns were a feast to the eye. Orange and Green, Pinks and Ochres. What a delight.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">I took these photos of Father's workshop last time we were over sorting out Father's house and belongings. He was such a prodigious maker I am amazed at just how many pieces of furniture, cushions and gadgets were made by him. None of us are acquisitive, but how can any of us part with any of it. Then there are the items of furniture, paintings etc which have been childhood friends and are as much a part of my make up as the Border hills. Why is it that human beings enjoy the comfort of familiar things. It is hard to imagine the total wrench which refugees go through. </span></div>
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Last time I wrote this blog I was finishing pots for the <a href="http://www.craftcentreleeds.co.uk/#!figure-that-2015/cuh6" target="_blank">Leeds Craft and Design Gallery</a> show 'Figure That'. Here are a few images of some of the pots which I took down to it and which are on display there until 31st October.</div>
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I always like to have a workshop name for things, so these long narrow dishes are called RAH dishes. I have discovered that they are great in the windowsill for 'Ripen at Home' fruit, (such as you get in Scotland, I guess that they wouldn't be great sellers in the South of France)!<br />
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Two of the things I have been working on over the last weeks have been a extruded vases and long dishes.The most successful of these will be going to an exhibition at <a href="http://www.craftcentreleeds.co.uk/#!figure-that-2015/cuh6" target="_blank">Leeds Craft and Design Gallery</a> next week, entitled "Figure That'.<br />
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Once I have made the die the initial extrusions are comparatively straightforward to make. But by the time I have added the bases, incised each design, (no two are the same so each design has to fit the individual flow of the piece), days seem to go by. These ones are ready to be put into the glaze kiln, they have been bisc fired, coloured glazes applied to the designs with a slip trailer, then the glazed sections masked out with wax emulsion so that I can dip or spray the rest of the area with contrasting glaze.<br />
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I couldn't resist admitting to this ridiculous cat and ridiculous owner, neither of whom at this point helped either of us achieve anything at speed.<br />
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One thing I <i>haven't</i> been working on this year is a competition piece for <a href="http://www.potfest.co.uk/potfestpark.htm" target="_blank">Potfest in the Park</a>, the fantastic show of British and International ceramics held at Hutton in the Forest Penrith next weekend. The year I decided not to apply, the competition theme is temptingly illustrative. It is 'Biblical' - I would have been spoilt for choice of ideas!<br />
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But this year I am not going to be there. Last Autumn I decided to have a year out, and the way things turned out this year, it was a very fortuitous decision. It's kind of strange, and I am feeling a little sad to be missing it, and all my friends, though I know I made the right decision. Have fun all of you, I will think of you setting up your stands. (I shall instead be listening to music at 'Womad' World Music Festival, a treat indeed).<br />
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Last week I was looking for a lost tool, and in my frustration I ended up tipping out 4 boxes of odds and ends, things like interesting objects to impress into clay, or half made tools, a lot dating from way back to when I used to run pottery evening classes.<br />
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It was lovely to be sent this picture today from the owners of Octo-puss looking very happy in his new home. I do rather miss him, so it was especially rewarding to see him so well loved.<br />
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How did I acquire quite so many brushes over the years? I did inherit a whole lot more from the late Ralph Neat who no doubt had built up a similar life time's collection.</div>
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How did that happen? <a href="http://www.spring-fling.co.uk/" target="_blank">Spring Fling Open Studios</a> is less than two weeks away and I still have a mountain to climb. Not only am I trying to get half made pots finished off and through the kilns but I suddenly realised that I really ought to have a few more of the smaller items such as mugs and jugs made. I put aside my glazing to have a last ditch throwing day on Friday, slipping and putting on handles over the weekend.<br />
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A set of gannet candle holders,. The gannets have been glazed in coloured glazes, and masked out, then the whole dipped in transparent glaze. Some of these are for <a href="http://www.spring-fling.co.uk/artists/roger-lever" target="_blank">Roger Lever's</a> gannet exhibition, 'Infinite Space', opening at the Lever Gallery in Dalbeattie on Friday. Roger is a photographer and he has taken some superb shots of these magnificent birds. His studio is also open during Spring Fling, so worth a visit. </div>
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This year once again I have <a href="http://www.wendykershaw.org/" target="_blank">Wendy Kershaw</a> coming down to share my studio over Spring Fling. It is lovely for me to have her company and beautiful work around and it makes for an interesting combined studio visit.</div>
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Spring Fling runs from 23rd May to 25th with an early opening preview for Wendy and I on the Friday - do come and join us if you can. </div>
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After a prolonged time away I am back in the workshop, rescuing my somewhat mouldy pots. I got the batch of 3D pictures sprayed with coloured slips over weekend and they are now drying slowly under polythene. </div>
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The first version was a plate which was sold at the preview of the Spring Fling exhibition at The <a href="http://www.mcgillduncangallery.com/" target="_blank">McGill Duncan Gallery</a>.</div>
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The last 6 weeks or so have been sad yet special ones. We lost our dear Father after a short illness. He was 89 and had lived a full life. He was really remarkably fit right up until the last year or so. </div>
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He was a regular a visitor to Potfest in the Park, I don't think he ever missed it. The last time he undertook a long drive by himself was to go to Potfest 2014. He loved to come and see the show, meet his pottery friends and see what I had been making for it. Often to my embarrassment he would declare to be my biggest fan! </div>
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He was a GP by profession, but also a fine woodworker. He always kept his hands busy. It was in his workshop in the cellar, with the freedom to use his tools and under his gentle encouragement, that I owe my love of making. As <a href="https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poets/leonard-mcdermid" target="_blank">Len McDermid</a> said in his tribute: </div>
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89th Birthday at the Halterburn near Yetholm in September. Many happy family days were spent making dams here.</div>
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Life has changed for me, but my Father will live on in everything I make.</div>
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We had a long planned treat, which was trip to the Sage Concert hall to hear the 'Songlines World Music Award Winners' concert that evening, so it all got a bit late and scrambled. It took a while to unwind, but it was a great evening of music and luckily impossible to carry on fretting about kilns when aborbed in all that exuberant musical energy. It was and lovely to stay over and see <a href="http://www.timfoxall.com/" target="_blank">Tim Foxell's</a> wonderful spatula workshop, humming with creativity, and <a href="http://www.suedunneceramics.com/" target="_blank">Sue Dunne's</a> ceramic workshop. </div>
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All in aid of the ceilidh at the weekend.</div>
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My friend Jolanda and I decided we should organise a joint ceilidh to celebrate both our birthdays. Everyone brought a dish and the food was Galloway's finest with a special mention to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AnnettesBakingInABox?fref=photo" target="_blank">Annette's</a> chocolate ganache cake and strawberry cake which were fit for a queen! Thanks so much to 'The Other Band' for the great music and dances. </div>
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What a joy to share the evening with so many lovely people!</div>
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I have here to mention the SURPRISE CAKE! Anyone who follows this blog will recognise the boat and gannet theme. This time Jolanda is on the bow and your truly is at the oars! Thank you dear Jools for this incredible surprise! </div>
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Potter friend <a href="http://www.suedunneceramics.com/" target="_blank">Sue Dunne</a> and Tim played us a tune and <a href="http://donaldadamson.co.uk/" target="_blank">Donald Adamson</a> read us a witty and apt poem (with the Scottish referendum looming), entitled 'Sitting on the Fence'!</div>
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All on the kindest September evening that Scotland can offer.</div>
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